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 …

Recent surveys show considerable progress in maternal and child health in Ethiopia. The improvement has been in health … outcomes and health services coverage. The study examines how different groups have fared in this progress. It tracked 11 … health outcome indicators and health interventions related to Millennium Development Goals 1, 4, and 5. These are stunting …

This paper explores the impact of remittances on poverty, education, and health in 11 Latin American countries using … with migration-the potential income that the migrant may have made at home. The main findings of the study are the … following: (1) regardless of the counterfactual used remittances appear to lower poverty levels in most recipient countries; (2 …

This article analyzes the extent to which the Basic Benefit Package (BBP), a subsidized health program in Armenia …, increases utilization and affordability of outpatient health care among the poor. The authors find that beneficiaries of the BBP …) than eligible users not receiving the BBP. However, even among BBP beneficiaries the level of outpatient health care …

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 …

and health services. Drawing on multiple rounds of SUSENAS household surveys, they document a reversal in the rate of … decline in poverty and a slowdown in social sector improvements resulting from the economic crisis in the second half of the … 1990s. Carrying out traditional static benefit-incidence analysis of public spending in education and health, the authors …

Standard methods of measuring poverty assume that an individual is poor if he or she lives in a family whose income or … poverty by gender. A more promising approach is likely to come within a broader definition of poverty that includes health … consumption lies below an appropriate poverty line. Such methods provide only limited insight into male and female poverty …