Reaching the Poor with Health, Nutrition, and Population Services: What Works, What Doesn't, and Why - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0821359614 ISBN 13: 9780821359617

Publisher: World Bank Publications, 2005

Synopsis

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: World Bank Publications
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0821359614
• ISBN 13: 9780821359617
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 376
• Editor: Gwatkin Davidson R., Wagstaff Adam, Yazbeck Abdo S.