Documentos e informes
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Croatia - Financial crises and social spending : the impact of the 2008-2009 crisis (Inglés)
This paper examines the impacts of the 2008-2009 economic crisis on social spending, drawing on evidence at the global, national, and household levels, to provide a sense of the nature and the effects...
Tipo de documento: Otro estudio sobre el sector público Número del informe: 69878 Fecha del documento: 18 de junio de 2010 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Lewis,Maureen A.,Verhoeven, Marijn
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Governance in health care delivery : raising performance (Inglés)
The impacts of health care investments in developing and transition countries are typically measured by inputs and general health outcomes. Missing from the health agenda are measures of performance that...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS5074 Fecha del documento: 1 de octubre de 2009 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Lewis,Maureen A.,Pettersson Gelander,Gunilla
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Governance in health care delivery : raising performance (Inglés)
The impacts of health care investments in developing and transition countries are typically measured by inputs and general health outcomes. Missing from the health agenda are measures of performance that...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo Número del informe: 53109 Fecha del documento: 1 de junio de 2009 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Lewis,Maureen A.,Pettersson Gelander,Gunilla
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Health investments and economic growth : macroeconomic evidence and microeconomic foundations (Inglés)
This paper reviews the correlations and potential links between health and economic growth and summarizes the evidence on the role of government in improving health status. At the macroeconomic level...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS4877 Fecha del documento: 1 de marzo de 2009 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Jack,William G.,Lewis,Maureen A.
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Social exclusion and the gender gap in education (Inglés)
Despite a sharp increase in the share of girls who enroll in, attend, and complete various levels of schooling, an educational gender gap remains in some countries. This paper argues that one explanation...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS4562 Fecha del documento: 1 de marzo de 2008 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Lewis,Maureen A.,Lockheed,Marlaine E.
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Who is paying for health care in Europe and Central Asia? (Inglés)
Informal payments in the health sector in Eastern Europe and Central Asia are emerging as a fundamental aspect of health care financing and a serious impediment to health care reform. Informal payments...
Tipo de documento: Publicación Número del informe: 20940 Fecha del documento: 30 de septiembre de 2000 Autor: Lewis,Maureen A.
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Challenging El Salvador's rural health care strategy (Inglés)
Can a supply-driven network of under-skilled rural health promoters make a difference in rural health care? There are few, if any, signs that the current rural health strategy in El Salvador is working...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS2164 Fecha del documento: 31 de agosto de 1999 Autor: Lewis,Maureen A.,Eskeland,Gunnar Saethern,Traa-Valerezo, Ximena
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Measuring public hospital costs : empirical evidence from the Dominican Republic (Inglés)
Effective analysis of hospital performance requires the existence of accurate cost and output data. In most developing countries these are missing due to lack of information systems, or other data sources...
Tipo de documento: Serie de documentos sobre el grupo para el desarrollo humano y social de América Latina y el Caribe Número del informe: 15931 Fecha del documento: 31 de julio de 1996 Autor: Lewis,Maureen A.
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Pricing and cost recovery experience in family planning programs (Inglés)
Policymakers in LDCs are currently caught by the conflicting objectives of continuing to make family planning programs widely available and at the same time reducing public expenditures. User support through...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo preparado por el personal Número del informe: SWP684 Fecha del documento: 31 de agosto de 1985 Autor: Lewis,Maureen A.