This book on poverty and health, jointly published by the OECD and WHO, sets out the essential components of a broad-scope “pro-poor” health approach for action within the health system and beyond it.
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development00
We develop and implement what we believe is the first conceptually valid health-inclusive poverty measure (HIPM)a measure that includes health care or insurance in the poverty needs threshold and heal
Why have some poor countries been able to take off while others are still stuck in the poverty trap? To address this old question, we observe that (i) with similar or higher levels of educational atta
Poverty is strongly associated with worse health across countries and within countries across individuals. However, not all poor individuals suffer from poor health: the effects of poverty on health v