Poor people?s access to good health care is limited because they cannot afford it and often live far from quality services. There is evidence that poor people will pay to use health services if the quality is good. Cash transfers have also been highly successful in encouraging women to use health care. A...
Without evidence-informed action, health-related Millennium Development
Goals as well as those of individual nations are unlikely to be achieved.
Health policies are influenced by a variety of factors – values and beliefs,
stakeholder power, institutional constraints, and donor funding flows, among
oth...
Health care systems face ever changing and
often competing demands for resources. For
a health care system to be sustainable it must
be able to pay for investment in buildings
and equipment, training and remuneration
of personnel and for drugs and other consumables. How these financial resources are
gene...
