Marge Koblinsky, Zoë Matthews, Julia Hussein, Dileep Mavalankar et al.
Because most women prefer professionally provided maternity care when they have access to it, and since the needed clinical interventions are well known, we discuss in their paper what is needed to move forward from apparent global stagnation in provision and use of maternal health care where matern...
Timothy Evans, Monica Whitehead, Finn Diderichsen, Abbas Bhuiya et al.
Foreword PART I: ESTABLISHING VALUES 1. Challenging Health Inequities: An Introduction 2. The Social Basis of Disparities in Health 3. Ethical Dimensions of Health Equity 4. Health Equity in a Globalizing World PART II: ASSESSING AND ANALYZING THE HEALTH DIVIDE Introduction to Part II 5. Measuring D...
Davidson R. Gwatkin, Abbas Bhuiya, César G. Victora
Health systems are consistently inequitable, providing more and higher quality services to the well-off, who need them less, than to the poor, who are unable to obtain them. In the absence of a concerted effort to ensure that health systems reach disadvantaged groups more effectively, such inequitie...
Dina Balabanova, Anne Mills, Lesong Conteh, Baktygul Akkazieva et al.
In 1985, the Rockefeller Foundation published Good health at low cost to discuss why some countries or regions achieve better health and social outcomes than do others at a similar level of income and to show the role of political will and socially progressive policies. 25 years on, the Good Health ...
Owen O’Donnell, Eddy van Doorslaer, Ravindra P. Rannan‐Eliya, Aparnaa Somanathan et al.
We estimate the distributional incidence of health care financing in 13 Asian territories that account for 55% of the Asian population. In all territories, higher-income households contribute more to the financing of health care. The better-off contribute more as a proportion of ability to pay in mo...
Syed Saad Andaleeb, Nazlee Siddiqui, Shahjahan Khandakar
Concern over the quality of health care services in Bangladesh has led to loss of faith in public and private hospitals, low utilization of public health facilities, and increasing outflow of Bangladeshi patients to hospitals in neighbouring countries. Under the circumstances, assessment of the coun...
Wendy Graham, Jacqueline Bell, Colin H W Bullough
Summary This paper explores the scientific justification for the key action message “ensure skilled attendance at delivery.” Many governments and other provider agencies in poor countries will need to commit additional health resources in order to respond to this message, and opportunity costs will ...
S Campbell, Marion Campbell, Jeremy Grimshaw, Alison Walker
BACKGROUND: The aim of the study was to review systematically the literature measuring the accuracy of routine UK hospital statistics that classify patients on discharge. METHODS: A systematic review was carried out of studies comparing routine discharge statistics about an episode of hospital care ...
Nazmul Chaudhury
Unannounced visits were made to health \n clinics in Bangladesh to determine what proportion of \n medical professionals were at their assigned post. Averaged \n over all job categories and types of facility, the absentee \n rate was 35 percent. The absentee rate for physicians was 4...
Reinhold Gruen, Raqibul Anwar, Tahmina Begum, James R Killingsworth et al.
This paper analyses the system of financial and non-financial incentives underlying job preferences of doctors in Bangladesh who work both in government health services and in private practice. The study is based on a survey of 100 government-employed doctors with private practice, across different ...
Pia Hardelid, Nirupa Dattani, Ruth Gilbert
OBJECTIVES: To estimate the proportion of children who die with chronic conditions and examine time trends in childhood deaths involving chronic conditions. DESIGN: Retrospective population-based death cohort study using linked death certificates and hospital discharge records. SETTING: England, Sco...
Taslima Rahman, Dominic Gasbarro, Khurshid Alam
BACKGROUND: Financial risk protection (FRP), defined as households' access to needed healthcare services without experiencing undue financial hardship, is a critical health systems target, particularly in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Given the remarkable growth in FRP literature in rece...
Kaosar Afsana
In Bangladesh, maternal mortality is estimated to be 320 per 100,000 live births, among the highest in the world, and most deliveries in rural areas occur at home. Women with obstetric complications fear to seek hospital care for various reasons; one of which is the tremendous cost. This paper shows...
Katherine Neuhausen, A. Davis, Jack Needleman, Robert H. Brook et al.
Safety-net hospitals rely on disproportionate-share hospital (DSH) payments to help cover uncompensated care costs and underpayments by Medicaid (known as Medicaid shortfalls). The Affordable Care Act (ACA) anticipates that insurance expansion will increase safety-net hospitals' revenues and will re...
Chris van Weel, Ryuki Kassai, Waris Qidwai, Raman Kumar et al.
Primary healthcare is considered an essential feature of health systems to secure population health and contain costs of healthcare while universal health coverage forms a key to secure access to care. This paper is based on a workshop at the 2016 World Organization of Family Doctors (WONCA) South A...