inequities in ANC and delivery care services using the latest three waves of Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey. This study … around 0.20 for receiving ANC from medically trained provider. Findings indicate that inequity in delivery at health facility … about 3 times more likely to have 4+ ANC visits (OR=2.91, 95% CI: 2.24-3.78), delivery at health facility (OR=3.16, 95% CI …

positive externalities in the form of improved health behaviors, such as more exercise, particularly for single black females. …

Child health, particularly long-term nutritional status, is closely related to the characteristics of families … increasing the likelihood that a child can access high quality health-care and other services that affect health status. Access …, particularly the education level of the mother or caregiver. In Peru, despite a dramatic increase in investment in health during …

Objectives: This paper describes the age patterns of socioeconomic gradients of health of Indian adults for multiple … health indicators encompassing the multidimensional nature of health. Methods: Cross-sectional data on 11,230 Indians aged 18 … socioeconomic status (education and household wealth) and age on four health measures: self-rated health, self-reporting functioning …

survival depends on health capital produced from time investment and health goods. Higher fundamental inequality, working … inequality worsen because the poor have less capacity to respond. By diverting resources from health production, aspirations also … worsen mortality, especially for the poor. Though relative income has a strong negative effect on personal health, we show …

Although, currently many people live longer and enjoy the benefit of better health than their previous generations …, many countries face an important challenge: large differences among population’s health. Thus, health inequality is met … disadvantaged groups and the rest of the population. Therefore, in this paper I analyzed the health inequalities between the …

The issue of whether faith-inspired providers are able to reach the poor depends in part on the cost of the health … assess to what extent the cost of healthcare is a major reason for not being satisfied with health services and whether …

The Christian Health Association of Ghana is the largest federation of faith-inspired provider of health services in … data from the Ministry of Health. Using poverty mapping techniques and simple regression analysis, this paper aims to …

incidence analysis of public spending for health. District-level financial data on public transfers are combined with household … survey data on the use of various types of facilities by the population to assess whether public health spending reaches …-between. Public health funding is also found to be regressive, in large part because hospitals and clinics still benefited the better …