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...
Jennifer Bryce, Shams El Arifeen, George Pariyo, Claudio F. Lanata et al.
This is the third paper in the series on child survival. The second paper in the series, published last week, concluded that in the 42 countries with 90% of child deaths worldwide in 2000, 63% of these deaths could have been prevented through full implementation of a few known and effective interven...
Jennifer Bryce, Shams El Arifeen, Zulfiqar A Bhutta, Robert E. Black et al.
Abbas Bhuiya, Md. Fazlul Karim Chowdhury, Md. Sawkat Jahangir, Davidson R. Gwatkin et al.
Davidson R. Gwatkin, Shea Rutstein, Kiersten Johnson, Eldaw Suliman et al.
This report on the Socio-economic differences in health, nutrition, and population in Bangladesh is one in a series that provides basic information about health, nutrition, and population (hnp) inequalities within fifty-six developing countries. The report's contents are intended to facilitate prepa...