The State of the World's Children 2011 examines the global state of adolescents; outlines the challenges they face in … health, education, protection and participation; and explores the risks and vulnerabilities of this pivotal stage. The report … intergenerational cycle of poverty and inequity and of laying the foundation for a more peaceful, tolerant and equitable world. URL …

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 health sectors, rather than remaining the preserve of a few …

health, there is more inequality in the world than if we consider income alone. Such international inequalities in life … hope that economic growth will improve people’s health as well as their material living conditions. I argue that the … poverty reduction, there is no evidence that it will deliver automatic health improvements in the absence of appropriate …

significant increase in the number iof hospital beds to meet the growing health demands of its poopulalation. Most of this growth … hospital sector, however has not exhibited similar growth though private expenditures on medical and health care in real terms … have grown at 10 per cent per annum. This experience has something to do with the financial health and risks, as these are …

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 …

Engaging and strengthening the ICDS and Health programs of the government was a major approach of the two component … effectiveness at scale. This paper describes how the INHP learnt and evolved in its strategies in engaging existing public health …

and health indicators. Quantile regression analysis is used to identify the impact of determinants at different parts of …

investment expenditures in public infrastructure in the sectors of education, health, and physical infrastructure is examined …