Health evidence confirms that the burden of disease associated with inadequate Hygience, Sanitation, Water (HSW) is …

The budget 2006-07 proposals in health care fell well short of India’s march towards achieving Millennium Development … Goals(MDGs), the National Health Policy (NHP) goals and fully operationalising the National Rural Health Mission. Two …

isolates two very different kinds of interventions needed to restore the economy back to health, arguing that government …

using modified Mc. Farlane Abuse Assessment Screen (AAS). [Presented at Global Forum for Health Research]. …

Countries that have universal or near universal access to healthcare have health financing mechanisms which are single …. It is this that contributes primarily to equity in healthcare in these countries. All OECD countries, excluding the USA … for India to move towards financing mechanisms that can create equity. It brings together data on India’s health …

BRAC has long been working to empower people and communities in situations of poverty, illiteracy, disease and social …

It is examined whether differential progress towards health MDGs was associated with economic development, public … health funding (both overall and as percentage of available domestic funds), or health system infrastructure. Also, the …

Out-of-pocket (OOP) payments are the principal means of financing health care throughout much of Asia. The paper … describe the magnitude and distribution of OOP payments for health care in 14 countries and territories accounting for 81% of … comparing poverty headcounts and gaps before and after OOP health payments. Presented here is the first cross …

This paper describes the structure and the distribution of health care financing in 13 territories that account for 55 …% of the Asian population. Survey data on household payments are combined with Health Accounts data on aggregate … expenditures by source to estimate distributions of total health financing. In all territories, high-income households contribute …