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 …

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. For this reason, developing countries often do not have the budget to update their estimates of poverty and health …It is costly to collect the household- and individual-level data that underlies official estimates of poverty and …

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 …

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 …

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 …