In spite of all efforts to build national health services, health systems of many low-income
countries are today highly pluralistic. Households use a vast range of public and private …

Global health partnerships created to encourage funding efficiencies need to be
approached with some caution, with claims for innovation and responsiveness to …

In today's Lancet, Lu and colleagues1 show that for every dollar of international health aid
provided to governments, government health funding falls by US $0· 43–1· 14. Irrespective …

A team from the Institute of Tropical Medicine (ITM), Antwerp was asked by the Alliance for
Health Policy and Systems Research to map health systems research, health systems …

Background There is substantial evidence that ill-health is a major cause of impoverishment
in developing countries. Major illnesses can have a serious economic impact on poor …

The Working Paper Series of the Studies in Health Services Organisation and Policy aims to
present innovative work in the domain of policy, management and organisation of health …

Background Economic transition which took place in China over the last three decades, has
led to a rapid marketization of the health care sector. Today inequity in health and poverty …

ABSTRACT Background: In India every year an estimated 20,000 patients die of Rabies.
Major reason for poor compliance to anti-rabies prophylaxis is the high cost of anti-rabies …

Reframing non-communicable diseases (NCDs) to “spur a sense of urgency” and “focus
attention on effective system-wide interventions” 1 makes sense. With almost threequarters …

In many low-income countries, poor households face many barriers to use hospital services.
As a result, better-off households may be the main beneficiaries of government and donor …