— Different households have followed very different economic trajectories, this study of 35 north Indian villages shows. Members of 11.1% of 6,376 households in these villages have overcome poverty in the last 25 years, while members of another 7.9% have fallen into poverty. Households’ escape from poverty is assisted by one set of factors, but an entirely different set of factors is associated...

Performance-Based Financing (PBF) is a promising approach to improve health system performance in developing countries, but there are concerns that it may inadequately address inequalities in access to care. Incentives for reaching the poor may prove beneficial, but evidence remains limited. We evaluated a system of targeting the poorest of society ('indigents') in a PBF programme in Cameroon, ...

Previous studies have consistently found that that there is an inverse relationship between householdlevel poverty and health status, and that poor people tend to live in poor communities. However, what is not well understood is whether and how the average economic status at the community level plays a role in the household poverty–health relationship. This study investigates the concentration ...

bolism goes wrong, to direct our social evolution along the channels that make for health in the community, is the function of government, both national and municipal. The principal cause of communal disease is poverty, and poverty is increased by waste. Excessive taxation is one of the causes that is preventing trade recovery, and is thus both directly and indirectly increasing and maintaining...

BACKGROUND Geography poses serious challenges to delivery of health services and is a well documented marker of inequity. Maternal, newborn and child health (MNCH) outcomes are poorer in mountainous regions of low and lower-middle income countries due to geographical inaccessibility combined with other barriers: poorer quality services, persistent cultural and traditional practices and lower so...