Osei Afriyie, Doris Krasniq, Blerina Hooley, Brady Tediosi, Fabrizio Fink, Günther
Published in
International Journal for Equity in Health
Background Ensuring access to essential quality health services and reducing financial hardship for all individuals regardless of their ability to pay are the main goals of universal health coverage. Various health insurance schemes have been recently implemented in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) to achieve both of these objectives. We sy...
Maly, Rose C Liu, Yihang Diamant, Allison L Thind, Amardeep
Published in
Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine : JABFM
The involvement of PCPs in the medical care of low-income BC survivors results in better preventive follow-up care. Getting PCPs involved in the care of cancer survivors might be particularly pertinent for low-income populations because of lower costs and ease of access compared with cancer specialist-provided care.
de Francisco, A
Published in
Lancet (London, England)
In the paper by Kasturi Sen and Ruth Bonita, it is argued that the global rapid demographic and risk factor changes will lead to an increase in the heavy burden of noncommunicable diseases in the absence of preventive action. However, it should be emphasized that noncommunicable diseases are already well established in less developed countries. Sta...
Published in
Asiaweek
This paper comments on two documents prepared by the Washington-based World Bank: the "World Development Report" and the three-volume study "Voices of the Poor." The author provides a brief overview of these documents then examines their potential impact on the delegates to the annual meetings of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund i...
Tzimis, L Kafatos, A
Published in
Public health
To examine pharmaceutical needs, prescribed drugs, knowledge about pharmacotherapy and dietary patterns among indigent children. 101 children ( or =4 per week (0% vs 6.3%) and fruits often (60.1% vs 75.0%). The present study emphasises the need for more information on drug use and the necessity for a continuing health educational intervention among...
Leach, A
Published in
Links : a newsletter on gender for Oxfam GB staff and partners
Humans are vulnerable to poverty in many ways, especially women. Poor people do not necessarily benefit from the way markets are managed, and women are experiencing particular barriers in making their independent living, such as low salary and access to fewer assets. In view of the above, Oxfam recognizes that in order for poor men and women to ach...
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Population briefs : reports on Population Council research,
In Bangladesh, especially in the rural areas, education has been affordable only for the wealthy. In view of such a situation, the Bangladesh government instituted two incentive programs. One scheme provides wheat to parents of poor primary school boys and girls, and the other offers scholarship money to female secondary school students. Both progr...
Bou, L C
Published in
Development in practice
This article focuses on the Tobas Indians who belong to a large group of indigenous people known as the ¿guaycurues¿. Originally, the Tobas occupied an extensive part of northern Argentina in the Chaco area, which includes the provinces of Chaco, Santa Fe, Santiago del Estero, Salta, and Formosa, reaching as far as neighboring Paraguay. The Tobas w...
Lodha, R Dash, N R Kapil, A Kabra, S K
Published in
Lancet (London, England)
This article highlights the prevalence of diphtheria in urban slums in north India. In 1997, diphtheria cases reached 1326, and in a study conducted in September 1999, 4 diphtheria cases were reported in a tertiary care hospital. These cases occurred despite the vaccination programs against diphtheria. Clinical manifestation included fever, sore th...
Tangermann, R H Hull, H F Jafari, H Nkowane, B Everts, H Aylward, R B
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Bulletin of the World Health Organization
The global initiative to eradicate poliomyelitis is focusing on a small number of countries in Africa (Angola, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sudan) and Asia (Afghanistan, Tajikistan), where progress has been hindered by armed conflict. In these countries the disintegration of health systems and difficulties of ac...
