In principle, the efficiency of poverty-oriented social programs can be increased dramatically through "targeting" an infelicitous term applied to efforts to focus development programs more directly on the poor. By one widely-cited estimate, a set of "perfectly targeted" programs -- that is,...

Los servicios de salud pueden contribuir considerablemente a mejorar las condiciones de salud de los grupos menos favorecidos. Sin embargo, tal como queda claro en este documento, los servicios de salud respaldados por Gobiernos o por organismos como el nuestro, suelen no llegar a las personas...

As spectacular mortality reductions have occurred in all developing nations at all national income levels, the epidemiologic transition theory suggests that cause-of-mortality patterns should shift from communicable diseases especially prevalent among infants and children to problems resulting...

Health services can make an important contribution to improved health conditions among disadvantaged groups. Yet as the contents of this volume make clear, the health services supported by governments, and by agencies like ours too often fail to reach these people who need them most. This is not...