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Health and Poverty

Georgia health system performance assessment

| 2009
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  • Publisher: World health organization (WHO). Regional office for Europe
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  • Keywords: health policy, health services, health information, georgia
This report summarizes the main findings of the World Health Organization (WHO) assessment of the performance of the Georgian health system, carried out between July 2007 and September 2009 by the Ministry of Labour, Health and Social Affairs of Georgia.

Sick and tired : climbing out of the health-poverty trap

| 2009
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  • Keywords: health, poverty
Poor health is the number-one poverty trigger. It can quickly tip people into poverty, specifically those already near the bottom of the socioeconomic ladder who lack health insurance or substantial savings to cover out-of-pocket healthcare costs. This article discusses the health-poverty trap.

Poverty and youth reproductive health : fact sheet on youth reproductive health policy

| 2009
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  • Publisher: Futures group
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  • Keywords: health policy, health services, poverty
This USAID fact sheet discusses youth reproductive health policy.

Consultation with chairs of health & finance committees of African parliaments on High level taskforce on innovative international financing for health systems (Taskforce) : final report

| 2009
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  • Publisher: International health partnership and related initiatives (IHP+)]
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  • Keywords: health services, health economics, poverty, africa
Report of the meetings, focused on developing an African parliamentary action plan to implement policy and budget support for health development and financing. They aimed to analyse and review the recommendations of the High Level Taskforce on Innovative International Financing for Health Systems.

Wanted: increased health coverage : from user fees to free care : MSF's experience in Liberia

| 2009
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  • Publisher: Médecins sans frontières (MSF)
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  • Keywords: health economics, health services, health policy, liberia
This report summarises MSF’s experience in improving patient access to health care with the objective of: contributing to improvements in the provision of free health care; providing additional evidence in favour of a policy decision to permanently suspend patient user fees.
 

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This portal contains information on health (system) policies and practices to improve equity in the health sector and contribute to poverty reduction in low- and middle-income countries. The portal is part of a wider programme, Information for Health Action (I4HA).