. This book takes an in-depth look at health, nutrition, and population (HNP) challenges faced by Sub-Saharan Africa … Africa continues to face a high burden of communicable disease, malnutrition, and fertility. At the same time, the ways in … comparative advantage in contributing within four broad areas: 1) macroeconomics and health, 2) multi-sectoral action for health …

"Public health services, which reduce a population's exposure to disease through such measures as sanitation and vector … public health efforts raised labor productivity and life expectancies well before modern curative technologies became widely …-keeping practices in a few Chinese villages. For various reasons, mostly of political economy, public funds for health services in India …

publicly subsidized (SUS) health services across municipios (counties) in Brazil, and on the probability that uninsured … individuals who require medical attention actually receive access to those health services. Using data from the 1998 PNAD survey … uninsured individual gains access to health services when he or she seeks it. The authors find that an increase in income …

This report examines three critically important areas to inform discussions on the appropriate level of health care … spending in the Russian Federation: (i) the efficiency of spending on health care services; (ii) distributional impacts of … spending on health care services; and (iii) the key factors that will influence the growth in health care spending over the …