The authors examine the effects of the introduction of Vietnam's health insurance (VHI) program on health outcomes …, health care utilization, and non-medical household consumption. The use of panel data collected before and after the … biases due to inappropriate specification of the outcome regression model. The authors' results suggest that Vietnam's health …

Inequalities in health have recently started to receive a good deal of attention in the developing world. But how large … inequalities in health across countries. The author explores the reasons for these inter-country differences, and concludes that … large inequalities in health, are not apparently associated with large inequalities in income, or with small shares of …

The Millennium Development Goals set quantitative targets for poverty reduction and improvements in health, education … in health, education, and the environment. Both estimates yield a figure in the range of $40-$70 billion in additional … health or education and related outcomes, or the relationship between investment and growth, the sensitivity of the results …

Empirical studies on health at a disaggregate level-by socioeconomic group or geographic location-can provide useful … information for designing poverty-focused interventions. Using Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) data, the author investigates … the determinants of health outcomes in low-income countries both at the national level, and for rural and urban areas …

This paper studies the growth effects of externalities associated with intergenerational health transmission, health …

impact of Burundi's civil war on children's health status. The identification strategy exploits exogenous variation in the …

specifically on the role of two areas of public policy, namely health system reforms and the one child policy. The empirical … associated with improved nutritional status in the preferred model. Data are drawn from four waves of the China Health and …

The benefits of good health to individuals and to society are strongly positive and improving the health of the poor is … a key Millennium Development Goal. A typical health strategy advocated by some is increased public spending on health … vaccines to ameliorate infectious diseases bedeviling the developing nations. But if the objective is better health outcomes at …

of housing and housing improvement programs on health and welfare. In this paper the authors help fill this gap by … investigating the impact of a large-scale effort by the Mexican government to replace dirt floors with cement floors on child health …