Kenneth Hill

TL;DR: This report examines the controversial questions surrounding health care and health policy and advocates a threefold approach to health policy for governments in developing countries and in the formerly socialist countries, based in large part on innovative research.

TL;DR: This analysis of the empirical record of the 1918-20 pandemic provides a plausible upper bound on pandemic mortality, indicating that most deaths will occur in poor countries--ie, in societies whose scarce health resources are already stretched by existing health priorities.

TL;DR: This article looks at the levels and trends in child mortality from 1990-2009 and states that removing financial and social barriers to accessing welfare services innovations to make supply of critical services more available to the poor and increasing local accountability of the health systems are examples of policy interventions that have allowed health systems to improve equity.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors developed and used a range of methods, depending on the type of data available, to produce comparable country, regional and global estimates of maternal mortality ratios for 2005 and to assess trends between 1990 and 2005.

TL;DR: These estimates are probably underestimates, but represent a rigorous attempt to measure the numbers of babies dying during the last trimester of pregnancy and are the first step towards making stillbirths count in public-health action.