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Health expenditure and finance: who gets what?
The methods used in South Africa's first comprehensive review of health finance and expenditure are outlined. Special measures were...
Health Human Resource Development in Rural China
China has made significant progress in increasing the quantity of health workers in rural areas. Attention is shifting to improving the...
Equity in Health in Unequal Societies: Meeting Health Needs in Contexts of Social Change
The paper explores the implications for health policy of the segmentation of society into social groups with very different levels of...
Decentralising rural health services: a case study in China
Many low and middle‐income countries have decentralized their public health services in an effort to improve their equity, efficiency...
Comparative Health Policy in the Asia-Pacific
Published by: Open University Press
Based upon research from eight countries in the Asia-Pacific Australia, China, Hong Kong, Japan, New Zealand, Singapore, South Korea,...
Financing Health Care in China’s Cities: Balancing Needs and Entitlements During Rapid Change
Published by: IDS
China is undergoing a demographic and epidemiological transition, a transition to a market economy and a transition to an urban,...
Mutual Learning for Universal Health Coverage
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
Accelerating progress towards the goal of achieving Universal Health Coverage (UHC) by 2030 is an essential component of equitable, sustainable and resilient development. 60 per cent of all deaths are caused by chronic health conditions such as diabetes, cancer and heart disease, which disproportionately affect poor and marginalised communities with limited access to vital health services.