Background: In 2005, India launched the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) to strengthen the primary healthcare … (DLHS) Rounds 1 (1995–99) and 2 (2000–04) from the pre-NRHM period, and Round 3 (2007–08), Round 4 and Annual Health Survey … socioeconomic inequity. Our study suggests that public health programs in developing country settings will have larger equity …

Improving maternal and child health outcomes is a major development objective. Targets related to these outcomes were … Sustainable Development Goals (under Goal 3 health targets). Turkey is among the few successful middle-income countries that have … significantly reduced the under-5 mortality rate below the MDG 2015 target levels. This study analyses improved demand-side (health …

Law and ethics are both essential attributes of a high-functioning health care system and powerful explainers of why … the existing system is so difficult to improve. U.S. health law is not seamless; rather, it derives from multiple sources … laws promoting market competition. Complying with law is important, but health professionals also should understand that …

We study the relative health performance of the poor under national health insurance programs for the poor. In 2008 …, India introduced Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana (RSBY), a national health insurance program for the poor. Using three waves … of representative household data from the National Family Health Survey (1998-99, 2005-06, and 2015-16), and employing a …

The present paper outlines measures of disparity in healthcare access and health outcomes, drawing from the … variables of the health system might wield more influence over health and health care disparities than the overarching features … defining our health system taxonomy. Finally, it will be analyzed how differences in healthcare use and health outcomes within …

The health landscape in Latin America and the Caribbean is changing quickly. The region is undergoing a demographic and … epidemiological transition in which health problems are highly concentrated on noncommunicable diseases (NCDs). In light of this, the … describes both alternative interventions to expand health insurance coverage and their tradeoff with labor informality and moral …