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This report from the World Bank describes practical, evidence-based strategies aimed at empowering the poor to get the health services they need. It contains 11 case studies that identify the chief beneficiaries of various health, nutrition, and population programs in Africa, Asia, and Latin America in order to determine how well these programs reach disadvantaged groups. Editor Gwatkin is a consultant on health and poverty to the World Bank and the Rockefeller Foundation. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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This volume presents eleven case studies that document how well or poorly health, nutrition, and population programs have reached disadvantaged groups in the countries of Africa, Asia, and Latin America where they were undertaken. The studies were commissioned by the Reaching the Poor Program, undertaken by the Word Bank in cooperation with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Dutch and Swedish governments, in an effort to find better ways of ensuring that health, nutrition, and population programs benefit the neediest.These case studies, reinforced by other material gathered by the Reaching the Poor Program, indicate clearly that health programs do not have to be inequitable. Although most health, nutrition, and population services achieve much lower coverage among disadvantaged groups than among the better-off, many significant and instructive exceptions exist. These show that the poor can be reached much more effectively than at present and point to potentially promising strategies for doing so.
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