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Community-based health insurance in developing countries: a study of its contribution to the performance of health financing systems
G. Carrin;M. Waelkens;B. Criel / Tropical Medicine & International Health , 2005
The paper published in Tropical Medicine and International Health Journal, studies the potential of community-based health insurance (CHI) to contribute to the performance of financing health systems....
Disparities in parasitic infections, perceived ill health and access to health care among poorer and less poor schoolchildren of rural Côte d'Ivoire
G. Raso; J. Utzinger; K.D. Silue / Tropical Medicine & International Health , 2005
This article examines inequities in health between school children in rural communities in Cote d’Ivoire. It investigates disparities in parasitic infection, perceived ill health (symptoms and disease...
Editorial: the Global Fund at three years – flying in crowded air space
R. Brugha / Tropical Medicine & International Health , 2005
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This Tropical Medicine and International Health editorial outlines the issues surrounding the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria between 2002 and 2005, and looks at the challenges it ...
Iatrogenic poverty
B. Meessen; Z. Zhenzhong; W. van Damme; N. Devadasan; B. Criel; G. Bloom / Tropical Medicine & International Health , 2003
This article, published in Tropical Medicine and International Health, examines the issues surrounding “iatrogenic poverty” – poverty caused by spending on medical treatment. In countries which have ...
Strategies for reducing maternal mortality in developing countries: what can we learn from the history of the industrialized West?
V. De Brouwere; R. Tonglet; W. Van Lerberghe / Tropical Medicine & International Health , 1998
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This paper from Tropical Medicine & International Health notes that after ten years of the Safe Motherhood Initiative, maternal mortality ratios in many developing countries remain similar to those of...

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