Vietnam has dealt historically with health as a valuable asset, a resource that was distributed in an equal manner to … all citizens through the development of a wide and inclusive grassroots health network during the 1970s. Since then, the … health system has developed - in parallel to the country's economy and shifts in policy - from a free-for-all service of a …

We investigate restructuring of the health system in Brazil motivated to operationalize universal health coverage …

Africa's quest to achieving improved health status and meeting the Millennium Development Goals targets cannot be … the policy effectiveness that bring about improved health and living standards of the citizenry. In this paper, we study … the importance of leader characteristics and regime transitions on government's expenditure in health, and hence on infant …

Policy-Feld "Global Health". Explizit geht es um Autorität innerhalb des institutionellen Rahmens globaler Gesundheitspolitik … health: the authority of the institutional setting, and the preferences and strategies of rising powers and non-state actors … of Global Health Governance, and WHO's fight to reassert its position. The core of the paper deals with the conflict on …

We evaluate the effectiveness of a post-conflict development programme on maternal health-care utilization in the … Development Facility of the United Nations Development Programme is successful in improving maternal health-care utilization … health-care utilization. The effectiveness of the programme would have been greater in the absence of conflict, although the …