[afro-nets] Reaching the Poor with Health Services

[Claudio Schuftan <claudio@hcmc.netnam.vn>]

Reaching the Poor with Health Services
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From: Ruggiero, Mrs. Ana Lucia <EQUIDAD@LISTSERV.PAHO.ORG>

Anybody with the time and the inclination to do a critical review?

Claudio Schuftan
mailto:claudio@hcmc.netnam.vn


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Reaching the Poor with Health Services

World Bank 2006
Website: http://tinyurl.com/zrjgb

Health services can make an important 
contribution to improved health conditions among 
disadvantaged groups. Yet, the services supported 
by governments and development agencies too often 
fail to reach these people who need them most.

Reaching the Poor with Health, Nutrition, and 
Population Services marshals the available 
evidence about pro-poor strategies that have 
proven to be effective and that can help in the 
development of programs to better assist 
disadvantaged groups. In doing so, it can serve 
as a resource for policy makers, development 
practitioners, and policy analysts concerned with 
health conditions among the poor.

Download: Complete Report (PDF 1.5 MB)
<http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTPAH/Resources/Reaching-the-Poor/complete.pdf>http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTPAH/Resources/Reaching-the-Poor/complete.pdf

Table of Contents

Ch. 1: Why Were the Reaching the Poor Studies Undertaken?
Ch. 2: How Were the Reaching the Poor Studies Done?
Ch. 3: What Did the Reaching the Poor Studies Find?
Ch. 4: Ghana and Zambia: Achieving Equity in the 
Distribution of Insecticide-Treated Bednets 
through Links with Measles Vaccination Campaigns
Ch. 5: Kenya: Reaching the Poor through the 
Private Sector -- a Network Model for Expanding 
Access to Reproductive health Services
Ch. 6: South Africa: Who Goes to the Public 
Sector for Voluntary HIV/AIDS Counseling and Testing?
Ch. 7: Bangladesh: Inequalities in Utilization of 
Maternal Helth Care Services -- Evidence from Matlab
Ch. 8: Cambodia: Using Contracting to Reduce 
Inequity in Primary Health Care Delivery
Ch. 9: India: Assessing the Reach of Three SEWA 
Health Services among the Poor
Ch. 10: India: Equity Effects of Quality 
Improvements on health Service utlization and 
Patient Satisfaction in Uttar Pradesh State
Ch. 11: Nepal: The Distributional Impact of 
Participatory Approaches on Reproductive Health 
for Disadvantaged Youths
Ch. 12: Argentina: Assessment of Changes in the 
Distribution of Benefits from Health and Nutrition Policies
Ch. 13: Brazil: Are Health and Nutrition Programs 
Reaching the Neediest?
Ch. 14: Peru: Is Identifying the Poor the Main 
Problem in Reaching Them with Nutritional Programs?

About the Authors
T. M. Iqbal Anwar, Aluísio J. D. Barros, Andréa 
D. Bertoldi, Indu Bhushan, Martha Campbell, 
Juraci A. Cesar, John Chimumbwa, Mahbub-E-Elahi 
Khan Chowdhury, Sushil Kanta Dasgupta, Nick 
Farrell, Leonardo Gasparini, Mark Grabowsky, 
Davidson R. Gwatkin, Palak Joshi , Japhet 
Killewo, Anju Malhotra, Sanyukta Mathur, Sandi 
Andrew Mbatsha, Dominic Montagu, Nelson A. 
Neumann, Theresa Nobiya, Solomon Orero, Natasha 
Palmer, Mónica Panadeiros, Rohini Pande, David 
Peters, Ndola Prata, Jumana Qamruddin, G. N. V. 
Ramana, Kent Ranson, Krishna Rao, Eva Roca, J. 
Brad Schwartz, Joel Selanikio, Mittal Shah, 
Yasmin Shaikh, Michael Thiede, Martín Valdivia, Cesar G. Victora,
Adam Wagstaff, Julia Walsh, Hugh Waters, Adam Wolkon, Abdo S. Yazbeck