"Aid to developing countries has largely neglected the population-wide health services that are core to communicable …'s exposure to disease through measures such as implementing health and sanitary regulations. They complement the clinical … coherent public health regulations in countries where donors have long been active, facilitating the spread of diseases such as …

"The authors examine the effects of the introduction of Vietnam's health insurance (VHI) program on health outcomes …, health care utilization, and non-medical household consumption. The use of panel data collected before and after the … biases due to inappropriate specification of the outcome regression model. The authors' results suggest that Vietnam's health …

This is the sixteenth in the annual series and examines the interplay between human health, health policy and economic … development. Because good health increases the economic productivity of individuals and the economic growth rate of countries …, investing in health is one means of accelerating development. More important, good health is a goal in itself. During the past …