This paper outlines changes that have been made in the 2019 version of the Health Equity and Financial Protection … refinements to the estimation of out-of-pocket expenditures. On the health equity side, the 2019 database includes 198 more data …

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 …

Providing protection against the financial risk of high out-of-pocket health spending is one of the main goals of the … Philippines’ health strategy. Yet, as this paper shows using eight household surveys, health spending increased by 150 percent … (real) from 2000 to 2012, with the sharpest increases occurring in recent years. The main driver of health spending is …

causal links. The evidence on the micro linkages from health investments to productivity and income are robust. Progress in …"This paper reviews the correlations and potential links between health and economic growth and summarizes the evidence … on the role of government in improving health status. At the macroeconomic level, the evidence of an impact of health on …

of AIDS, the value of medical costs averted, and the value of potential productivity losses. Under the "health sector …" algorithm - in which purchases are made to minimize the impact of AIDS/HIV on government health spending - 766 million courses … AIDS/HIV on health spending and GDP - more than 3.7 billion courses of vaccine would be purchased. Under an "equity" model …

It is widely observed that many physicians working in public health facilities do not put in the required effort and … financial reward, in providing quality health services. This mix of provider-types poses fundamental challenges in the design of … studies in the health care context of developing countries. …