education and health in Africa in order to track progress in and across countries over time. It seeks to enhance effective and … Africa. The main perspective adopted by the Delivering Service Indicators index is one of citizens accessing services and … Card on education and health. However, unlike traditional citizen report cards, it assembles objective information from …

Public health systems that are capable of disease surveillance and action to prevent and manage outbreaks require … trustworthy community-embedded public health workers who are empowered to undertake their tasks as professionals. Economic theory … for how to recruit and manage frontline health workers to promote trustworthiness and professionalism. This paper provides …

The low take-up of cost-effective and highly subsidised preventive health technologies in low-income countries remains … constrained. This paper analyses whether, and how, micro-finance supports a large public health subsidy program in the developing …

increase in private health investments …

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 …

There is building evidence in India that the delivery of health services suffers from an actual shortfall in trained … health professionals, but also from unsatisfactory results of existing service providers working in the public and private … rural health care facilities operated by two state governments. Physicians were sampled in one post-reform state that has …

Achieving the objective of China's current health system reform, namely equitable improvements in health outcomes, will … shows that since 2000, disparity in selected health outcomes has been declining across provinces, largely due to earmarked … central government allocations. By contrast, public expenditure on health is increasingly regressive (positively correlated …

can affect health care by providing incentives for providers to put more effort into specific activities, and by … incentives can improve both the use of and the quality of health services. Because the analysis isolates the incentive effect …

steps Indonesia can take to further improve population nutrition and health. The annexes provide extensive data and analysis …

Health facility surveys come in various guises. One dimension in which they vary is their motivation. Some seek to … linkages between government and providers. Health facility surveys differ too in the data they collect, in part due to the … health facility surveys …