• Meeting the health-related needs of the very poor
• Introduction
  • Introduction
  • Linkages between health and social protection
  • Frameworks of analysis for looking at health and the very poor
  • Social protection in transition economies
  • Collaboration between the health and social sectors
• Poverty and ill health
  • Poverty and ill health
  • Measuring poverty
  • Categories of poverty
  • The case for focusing on the very poor
  • Impact of ill health on the poor
  • Evidence of the impact of ill health
  • Recommended reading
• Targeting the very poor
  • Targeting the very poor
  • Targeted versus non-targeted strategies
  • Which targeting mechanism?
  • Implications of targeting
  • Costs of targeting the poorest
  • Recommended reading
• Health-related strategies for reaching the poor
  • Health-related strategies for reaching the poor
  • Decreed exemption schemes
  • Deferral schemes
  • Subsidised exemption schemes
  • Voucher schemes
  • Community-based health financing schemes
  • Health insurance
  • Subsidised treatment for specific health conditions
  • Regulation of the pharmaceutical sector
  • Contracting out of health care provision
  • Abolition of user fees
  • Recommended reading
• Other strategies for reaching the poor
  • Other strategies for reaching the poor
  • Cash transfers
  • Social funds
  • Role of civil society
  • Recommended reading
• Provider behaviour
  • Provider behaviour
  • Recommended reading
• Pro-poor health policies
  • Pro-poor health policies
  • Inducing a change in policy
  • Models and institutional mechanisms
  • Factors influencing policy formulation, implementation and outcomes
  • Issues for scaling-up
  • Recommended reading
• Aid instruments
  • Aid instruments
  • Global health partnerships
  • Recommended reading
• Also in this dossier
• Recommended readings
• PDF of the dossier
• About the dossier

Meeting the health-related needs of the very poor

International partnership of universities, research institutes and NGOs focusing its attention on chronic poverty, in order to stimulate national and international debate and to provide research, analysis and policy guidance that will contribute to its reduction.