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Adam Wagstaff
Researcher at World Bank
Publications - 314
Citations - 30650
Adam Wagstaff is an academic researcher from World Bank. The author has contributed to research in topics: Health care & Population. The author has an hindex of 75, co-authored 313 publications receiving 28471 citations. Previous affiliations of Adam Wagstaff include University of Aberdeen & St James's University Hospital.
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Child Health: Reaching the Poor
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors review what is known about the causes of socioeconomic inequalities in child health and where programs aimed at reducing inequalities may be most effectively focused and the success of actual programs in narrowing these inequalities.
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The redistributive effect of health care finance in twelve OECD countries.
Eddy van Doorslaer,Adam Wagstaff,Hattem Van Der Burg,Terkel Christiansen,Guido Citoni,Rita Di Biase,Ulf-G Gerdtham,Michael Gerfin,Lorna Gross,Unto Häkinnen,Jürgen John,Paul Johnson,Jan Klavus,Claire Lachaud,Jørgen Lauritsen,Robert E. Leu,Brian Nolan,João Pereira,Carol Propper,Frank Puffer,Lise Rochaix,Martin Schellhorn,Gun Sundberg,Olaf Winkelhake +23 more
TL;DR: The general finding of this study is that the vertical effect is much more important than horizontal inequity and reranking in determining the overall redistributive effect but that their relative importance varies by source of payment.
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Economic Growth, Poverty, and Household Welfare in Vietnam
Paul Glewwe,Nisha Agrawal,David Dollar,John Luke Gallup,Wim P.M. Vijverberg,Jonathan Haughton,Dwayne Benjamin,Loren Brandt,Dominique van de Walle,Nicholas Minot,Bob Baulch,Truong Thi Kim Chuyen,Dominique Haughton,Adam Wagstaff,Nga Nguyet Nguyen,Stefanie Koch,Bui Linh Nguyen,Pravin K. Trivedi,Eric V. Edmonds,Carrie Tirk,Phong Q. Nguyen,Donald Cox +21 more
TL;DR: Viet Nam is an economic success story - it transformed itself from a country in the 1980s as one of the poorest in the world, to a country with one the world's highest growth rates as discussed by the authors.
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The demand for health: an empirical reformulation of the Grossman model.
TL;DR: This paper argues that this formulation fails to capture the dynamic character of the model and proposes an alternative formulation, which appears to be more consistent with Grossman's theoretical model and which may also explain the apparent rejections of themodel by the data in the author's earlier empirical work.
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Equity in the delivery of health care: some international comparisons.
Eddy van Doorslaer,Adam Wagstaff +1 more
TL;DR: The results suggest that inequity exists in most of the eight countries, but there is no simple one-to-one correspondence between a country's delivery system and the degree to which persons in equal need are treated the same.