Ravi P. Rannan-Eliya

TL;DR: The overall prevalence of absolute poverty in these countries was 14% higher than conventional estimates that do not take account of out-of-pocket payments for health care, and policies to reduce the number of Asians living on less than 1 dollar per day need to include measures to reduce such payments.

TL;DR: A group of respected global health practitioners reflecting on lessons learned from the Ebola outbreak describe some of the major threats to individual and collective human health, as well as the values and recommendations that should be considered to counteract such threats in the future.

TL;DR: This work estimates the distributional incidence of health care financing in 13 Asian territories that account for 55% of the Asian population and finds that in most low-/middle-income countries, the better-off not only pay more, they also get more health care.

TL;DR: The experiences of Malaysia, Sri Lanka, and Thailand suggest that increasing the incidence of propoor healthcare requires limiting the use of user fees, or protecting the poor effectively from them, and building a wide network of health facilities.

TL;DR: This is the first cross-country comparisons of the impoverishing effect of OOP payments measured against the international poverty standards of $1 and $2 per person per day.