location, number of discharges, readmissions, mortality rate, age, percentages of uninsured population and population aged 65 … procedures could result in substantial savings in healthcare spending. They offer healthcare agencies and hospitals actionable …

health care system, while donor funding was focused on fighting HIV/AIDS. …

Usage of health facilities in Ethiopia is among the lowest in the world; raising usage rates is probably critical for … improving health outcomes. The government has diagnosed the principal problem as the lack of primary health facilities and is … devoting a large share of the health budget to building more facilities. But household data suggest that usage of health …

Demographic and Health Survey strata are disaggregated into 1,594 communes by combining the Demographic and Health Survey data …

applied to evaluate the effects on children's health opportunities of Mexico's Oportunidades program, one of the largest … conditional cash transfer programs for poor households in the world. The evidence from this program shows that gains in health …

them to health centers. The approach is both an alternative to more traditional social assistance programs and a demand …-side complement to the supply of health and education services. Unlike most development initiatives, conditional cash transfer … Nicaragua in increasing enrollment rates, improving preventive health care, and raising household consumption. Many questions …

analyze the effects of aggregate economic shocks on child schooling and health. They show that the expected effects are … literature on the subject. In richer countries, like the United States, child health and education outcomes are counter …: infant mortality rises and school enrollment and nutrition fall during recessions. In the middle-income countries of Latin …

This paper summarizes the literature on the impact of state subsidized or social health insurance schemes that have …, protection from financial risk, and health status. However, a few insurance schemes afford significant protection from high … levels of out-of-pocket expenditures. In these cases, however, the impact on the poor is weaker. More information is needed …

-round impacts) and the role of gender inequality in framing adaptive responses to conflict (second-round impacts). War's mortality …. Indirect war impacts on health are more equally distributed between the genders. Conflicts create households headed by widows …, migration, investments in children's health and schooling, and the distribution of labor between the genders. The impacts of …