effectiveness, cost, and cost-effectiveness of priority health interventions. The volume presents data on the surgical burden of … disease, disability, congenital anomalies, and trauma, along with health impact and economic analyses of procedures, platforms ….5 million deaths a year and rank among the most cost effective of all health interventions. Existing health care delivery …

programs in Ghana. Both broad-based programs (such as spending for education and health, and subsidies for food, oil … poverty and food security, as well as ways to implement proxy means-testing. The purpose of this introductory chapter is to …

proportion of people who suffer from hunger. Over time it became clear that no single indicator would provide a comprehensive …

This report examines the health and economic impact of noncommunicable diseases (NCD) in Latin America and the … policy decisions involving multi-sectoral interventions to prevent health risk factors are taken, which stakeholders directly …

As the world recently turned its attention to the struggle of expanding health insurance coverage for 40 million people … the same hardship. Millions of the poor have already fallen back into poverty as a result of the ongoing global financial … lack of protection against the impoverishing effects of illness. The research for this volume shows that, when properly …

This report is about how to improve health system outcomes in countries in the Europe and Central Asia (ECA) region …. Long-term historical trends indicate substantial room for improvement, especially when ECA's health outcomes are compared … ECA have been falling behind. This report, which explores the development challenge facing health sectors in ECA …

This report draws lessons for improving the policy design of poverty alleviation schemes in Jordan. The conclusions … herein are based on analyses of trends in consumption poverty in Jordan and assessment of the impact of government programs … (including food subsidies and cash transfers) on poverty alleviation in the 1990s. Poverty declined between 1992 and 1997 because …