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 …

This paper uses a prospective randomized trial to assess the impact of two school feeding schemes on health and …

In low- and middle-income countries, scaling essential health interventions to achieve health development targets is … constrained by the lack of skilled health professionals to deliver services. This paper takes a labor market approach to project … future health workforce demand based on an economic model that projects economic growth, demographics, and health coverage …

health workers in rural Burkina Faso provides strong evidence that the interaction of effort costs, ability, and intrinsic … and extrinsic incentives significantly influences service delivery to the poor. Health workers reviewed video vignettes of … on effort than bonuses to serve the nonpoor; health workers who receive equal bonuses to serve poor and nonpoor patients …

by trained technicians, and is recommended by the Food and Agriculture Organization for the accurate measurement of crop …