The author addresses two issues. First, how can health inequalities be measured so as to take into account policymakers … information on health inequality be combined with information on the mean of the relevant distribution to obtain an overall … measure of health "achievement?" Applying the approach developed by Wagstaff shows how much worse some countries perform when …

health shocks affect income, consumption, labor market outcomes, and medical expenditures in middle- and low-income countries … income is less important for the insured, possibly because health insurance coverage is also associated with limited sickness … considerable health-related shocks to disposable income, both through loss of income and health expenditures, and that health …

This paper looks at differential progress on the health Millennium Development Goals between the poor and better …-off within countries. The findings are based on original analysis of 235 Demographic and Health Surveys and Multiple Indicator … Cluster Surveys, spanning 64 developing countries over the period 1990-2011. Five health status indicators and seven …

large inequalities in health, are not apparently associated with large inequalities in income, or with small shares of …Inequalities in health have recently started to receive a good deal of attention in the developing world. But how large … inequalities in health across countries. The author explores the reasons for these inter-country differences, and concludes that …

capita income is today as a result of some of its workers having been stunted in childhood. The analysis uses a development … avoid double counting. The estimates show that, on average, the per capita income penalty from stunting is around 7 percent …

Health systems are not just about improving health: good ones also ensure that people are protected from the financial … consequences of receiving medical care. Anecdotal evidence suggests health systems often perform badly in this respect, apparently … to measure financial protection in health. Both relate a household's out-of-pocket spending to a threshold defined in …

The post-communist transition to social health insurance in many of the Central and Eastern European and Central Asian … social health insurance and tax-financed health systems. This paper employs a regression-based generalization of the … find that, controlling for any concurrent provider payment reforms, adoption of social health insurance increased national …

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 …

The literature contains few impact evaluations of health sector reforms, especially those involving broad and …-funded health sector reform project in China known as Health VIII. On the supply-side, the project combined infrastructure … health centers and county hospitals, and interventions aimed at improving the effectiveness and quality of care, including …