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MDGs : Millennium or Moving Development Goals?Health Sector Starved of Funds
Kathuria, Vinish - eSocialSciences - 2006
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 questions still remain: (a) when will the urban bias...
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Paying Out-of-Pocket for Health Care in Asia: Catastrophic and Poverty Impact
Doorslaer, Eddy van - eSocialSciences - 2007
comparing poverty headcounts and gaps before and after OOP health payments. Presented here is the first cross …-country comparisons of the impoverishing effect of OOP payments measured against the international poverty standards of $1 and $2 per …
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State Health Insurance and Out-of-Pocket Health Expenditures in Andhra Pradesh, India
Fan, Victoria; Karan, Anup; Mahal, Ajay - eSocialSciences - 2012
catastrophic health expenditures in households “below the poverty line.†The program and the districts are evaluated over time …
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Study of Government Interventions for Employment Generation in the Private Sector
Ballesteros, Marife M.; Israel, Danilo C. - eSocialSciences - 2014
apparently intended to address other social issues such as poverty reduction, social/human development or community development …
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A Case-Control Study to Assess the Relationship Between Poverty and Visual Impairment from Cataract in Kenya, Philippines and Bangladesh
Kuper, Hannah; Polack, Sarah; Eusebio, Cristina; … - eSocialSciences - 2008
The aim of this study was to examine the association between visual impairment from cataract and poverty in adults in … Kenya, Bangladesh, and the Philippines. A population-based case–control study was conducted in three countries during 2005 …, 75 controls; Bangladesh 216 cases, 279 controls; Philippines 238 cases, 180 controls). [PLoS Medicine December 2008]. …
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Who Pays for Health Care in Asia?
Rannan-Eliya, Ravi P.; Somanathan, Aparnaa; Adhikari, … - eSocialSciences - 2011
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...
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Health Economics for Developing Countries: A Survival Kit
Mills, Anne; Gilson, Lucy - eSocialSciences - 2009
Health economics is increasingly recognized as a discipline that has much to offer developing countries in addressing these problems, but how can it help? What economic concepts and tools can be applied to the health sector? A wider understanding of the discipline is required if it is to support...
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Global Patterns of Income and Health: Facts, Interpretations, and Policies
Deaton, Angus S. - eSocialSciences - 2006
poverty reduction, there is no evidence that it will deliver automatic health improvements in the absence of appropriate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005528103
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Financial Health of Private Hospitals in India
Bhat, Ramesh - eSocialSciences - 2006
Hospitals are an important component of the healthcare delivery system. Over the years, India has experienced a significant increase in the number iof hospital beds to meet the growing health demands of its poopulalation. Most of this growth has been experienced in the small sized private...
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Who’s Going Broke? Comparing Growth in Healthcare Costs in Ten OECD Countries
Kotlikoff, Laurence J.; Hagist, Christian - eSocialSciences - 2005
Government healthcare expenditures have been growing much more rapidly than GDP in OECD countries. For example, between 1970 and 2002 these expenditures grew 2.3 times faster than GDP in the U.S., 2.0 times faster than GDP in Germany, and 1.4 times faster than GDP in Japan. How much of...
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