Management for health services delivery

Sub-national and district management:
Basic values and principles


Poverty and health

  • Health and Social Protection: Meeting the Health Related Needs of the Very Poor
    Gerald Bloom, 2005, Institute of Development Studies, Brighton, UK
    reducing the burden of disease; analysing health-related shocks; reduction of health-related risks; reducing the illness-poverty link
    (19 pages, pdf 80kb)
  • Designing Health & Population Programs to Reach the Poor
    Lori S. Ashford and Davidson R. Gwatkin, 2006, Population Reference Bureau, USAID, The World Bank The poor are less healthy than the rich; Public health spending favors the better-off; Why do the poor receive less health care?; Directing program benefits toward the poor; Promoting universal coverage of basic health care; Poverty mapping: identifying where the poor live; Increasing the availability and quality of health services; Developing public-private partnerships; Creating incentives for health providers and clients; Increasing community participation; Health financing approaches; Case studies; Monitoring and evaluation tools, sample questionnaires; Comparing inequality among programs or across time periods; Suggested additional resources (32 pages, pdf 494kb)
  • WHO website on Poverty and Health
  • Integrating poverty and gender into health programmes
    WHO Regional Office for the Western Pacific
    A series of 9 modules for trainers and particpants (Scroll to the bottom of the page to see the documents and their links)
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