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Making health systems more equitable.
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There are many promising measures that might be pursued: establishment of goals for improved coverage in the poor, rather than in entire populations, and use of those goals to direct planning toward the needs of the disadvantaged.About:
This article is published in The Lancet.The article was published on 2004-10-02. It has received 407 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Health policy & Disadvantaged.read more
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Evidence-based, cost-effective interventions: how many newborn babies can we save?
Gary L. Darmstadt,Gary L. Darmstadt,Zulfiqar A Bhutta,Simon Cousens,Taghreed Adam,Neff Walker,Luc de Bernis +6 more
TL;DR: 16 interventions with proven efficacy (implementation under ideal conditions) for neonatal survival are identified and combined into packages for scaling up in health systems, according to three service delivery modes (outreach, family-community, and facility-based clinical care).
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How can we achieve and maintain high-quality performance of health workers in low-resource settings?
TL;DR: An international collaborative research agenda is proposed to generate knowledge about the true determinants of performance and about the effectiveness of strategies to improve performance and it is recommended that ministries of health and international organisations should actively help translate research findings into action to improve health.
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Achieving health equity: from root causes to fair outcomes
TL;DR: The time for action is now, not just because better health makes economic sense, but because it is right and just.
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Health care and equity in India
TL;DR: This work identifies key challenges for the achievement of equity in service provision, and equity in financing and financial risk protection in India and suggests principles that will help to ensure a more equitable health care for India's population.
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Economic Status, Education and Empowerment: Implications for Maternal Health Service Utilization in Developing Countries
TL;DR: Efforts to expand maternal health service utilization can be accelerated by parallel investments in programs aimed at poverty eradication, universal primary education, and women's empowerment.
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Statistical abstract of the United States
TL;DR: The Red River of the North basin of the Philippines was considered a part of the Louisiana Purchase by the United States Department of Commerce in the 1939 Census Atlas of the United Philippines as discussed by the authors.
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The inverse care law
TL;DR: The market distribution of medical care is a primitive and historically outdated social form, and any return to it would further exaggerate the maldistribution of medical resources.
World development report 2000/2001 : attacking poverty
Ravi Kanbur,Christina Malmberg Calvo,Monica Das Gupta,Christiaan Grootaert,Victoria Kwakwa,Nora Lustig +5 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on the dimensions of poverty and how to create a better world, free of poverty, and explore the nature, and evolution of poverty to present a framework for action.
Determinants of Health and Education Outcomes Background Note for World Development Report 2004: Making Services Work for Poor People
TL;DR: The World Development Report (WDR) 2004 warns that broad improvements in human welfare will not occur unless poor people receive wider access to affordable, better quality services in health, education, water, sanitation, and electricity as discussed by the authors.
World Development Report 2004 : making services work for poor people
Lant Pritchett,Ritva Reinikka,Shantayanan Devarajan,Deon Filmer,Stephen Commins,Jeffrey S. Hammer,Shekhar Shah,Agnès Soucat,Junaid Ahmad +8 more
TL;DR: The World Development Report (WDR) 2004 warns that broad improvements in human welfare will not occur unless poor people receive wider access to affordable, better quality services in health, education, water, sanitation, and electricity as mentioned in this paper.
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