disparities, which as evidence suggests often begin at home. Using the Pakistan Demographic and Health Surveys, this study …

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 …

causes of obesity and its relation to health, science, and economics. An essential read for policy makers who are seeking a …

The central aim of this text is to show the impact institutions have on the performance of the health sector in … Mozambique. The text shows that of the social determinants of health, institutions play a central role in the performance of the … Mozambican health sector-and, through it, economic and social development-particularly for the poorer and more vulnerable, such …