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 …

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 …

performers in terms of health outcomes in Latin America, with one of the highest infant mortality rates, and one of the lowest … diarrhea, pneumonia, cholera, malnutrition, and tuberculosis. A significant share of Guatemalans lack access to health care … services. A combination of both supply- and demand-side constraints limit the ability of households to seek health care …

This study examines the impact of a fee-waiver program for basic medical services on health care utilization in Armenia …. Because of the reduction in public financing of health services and decentralization and increased privatization of health … care provision, private out-of-pocket contributions are increasingly becoming a significant component of health costs in …

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 …