This Knowledge Brief provides a retrospective mapping of World Bank’s work and achievements on health taxes. Its main purpose is to (i) highlight World Bank health tax projects over the last 10 years (2013...
The Kyrgyz Republic graduated from low income to a low- and middle-income country (LMIC) status in 2014, impacting both the availability and type of development aid available to the country. For immunization...
Los servicios de salud pueden contribuir considerablemente a mejorar las condiciones de salud de los grupos menos favorecidos. Sin embargo, tal como queda claro en este documento, los servicios de salud...
This development outreach newsletter includes some of the following headlines: special report: reaching the poor with health services. Vigilance, hope and hard work; by Abdo S. Yaazbeck and Davidson R...
Health services can make an important contribution to improved health conditions among disadvantaged groups. Yet as the contents of this volume make clear, the health services supported by governments...
This is a study of how well health and related services provided by a large, prominent Indian non-governmental organization have reached the very poor. The Self-Employed Women's Association (SEWA) is a...
This paper provides empirical evidence regarding the performance of community-based health care financing in terms of (a) social inclusion and (b) financial protection. Five non-standardized household...
This paper assesses the impact of the Self-Employed Women's Association's (SEWA's) Medical Insurance Fund, Gujarat, in terms of inclusion of the poor, hospital utilization, and expenditure. Age-matched...
This study draws upon the methodology of the 1993 World Development Report: Investing in Health to provide analyses of the burden of disease and cost-effectiveness of health interventions. The analysis...