Despite the emphasis placed during the last two decades on public delivery of comprehensive and equitable primary care (PC) to developing country populations, coverage remains far from universal and the quality often poor. Users frequently patronise private providers, ranging from informal drug...

Fee exemption schemes are widely recommended but little analysed. This paper analyses the operation of the Free Medical Care Project in Thailand, which enables those classified as poor to receive free treatment at government facilities. The paper concentrates in particular on the size and...

Malaria is one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality in the developing world and a major public health problem in India. Disillusioned by in-house residual spraying (IRS), and increasingly aware that insecticide-treated nets (ITNs) have proved to be effective in reducing malaria...