health who met to discuss problems and potential solutions at the intersection of these fields. This report summarizes this … solutions made by participants and the subsequent evaluations of these suggestions and solutions. Led by the moderator … specific patent doctrines that can provide or help provide sufficient incentives for health-related innovation? Second, is …

impoverished areas of the world. Why are health outcomes among the world’s poor so dire after the first decade of the Millennium … Development Goals (MDGs) and despite a quadrupling of international health assistance over the past two decades? We believe that … to support, national and global responsibilities to improve global health. With the goal of a new post-MDG global health …

The health of the world’s population - including those in the poorest countries - has improved more in the past 100 … that exogenous models of development may still be relevant in explain gains in global health. In this paper, background to … Kenny’s book Getting Better, the authors investigate the cross-country determinants of health improvements and describe the …

We use a randomized community development programme in rural Pakistan to assess the impact of citizen engagement on … public service delivery and maternal and child health outcomes. The programme had a strong focus on ensuring the … children at baseline. At midline, we find that the mobilization effort alone had a significant impact on the performance of …

social insurance system into a national health service. In order to address these changes in a systematic way, we track …

healthcare system types: National Health Service, social health insurance system, and private health insurance system … relatively mixed Dutch social health insurance system. In order to approach this research question in a systematic way, we … progress culminated in 2006 in the merger of sickness funds and private health insurances into a functional social health …