education and health in Africa in order to track progress in and across countries over time. It seeks to enhance effective and … Card on education and health. However, unlike traditional citizen report cards, it assembles objective information from …

on the quality of public health services. The program had a strong emphasis on organizing women, who also identified … health services as a development priority at baseline. Assessing the program at midline, the paper finds that the … mobilization effort alone had a significant impact on the performance of village-based health providers. The study detects …

Health systems are not just about improving health: good ones also ensure that people are protected from the financial … consequences of receiving medical care. Anecdotal evidence suggests health systems often perform badly in this respect, apparently … to measure financial protection in health. Both relate a household's out-of-pocket spending to a threshold defined in …

The health systems of Japan and the Asian Tigers--Hong Kong (China), the Republic of Korea, Singapore, and Taiwan … five systems have managed to keep a check on health spending despite their different approaches to financing and delivery …. These differences are reflected in the progressivity of health finance, but the precise degree of progressivity of …

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 …

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 …

health. For this reason, developing countries often do not have the budget to update their estimates of poverty and health …

caregiving resources at the maternal, household, and community levels; and access to health services and a safe and hygienic … health has been quite limited; and (ii) provides evidence of significant synergies among adequate food, child care, and … environment and health …

A long literature in demography debates the importance of place for health. This paper assesses whether the importance … sanitation an important mechanism by which population density in?uences health outcomes? The paper uses newly assembled data sets …, international child-level data set of 172 Demographic and Health Surveys, matched to census population density data for 1 …

Although the importance of diet quality for improving child health is widely recognized, the roles of environmental … a policy framework. Moreover, nutrient intakes gradually affect child health, so it is helpful to use alternative tools …