Health Care Reforms that Serve the Poor

This report presents the chairman Bruntland speech on the remarkable achievements in health, nutrition, and population (delivered at the XII Malente Symposium of the Drager Foundation in Lubec). There have been greater gains in life expectancy and greater decre...

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Main Author:	Koch-Weser, Caio K.
Format:	Working Paper
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2013
Subjects:	ABUSE ACCESS TO HEALTH SERVICES AID AIDS PREVENTION BASIC EDUCATION BASIC HEALTH SERVICES BASIC NEEDS BIRTH RATES BLINDNESS BURDEN OF DISEASE CHILD HEALTH CHILD MORTALITY CLEAN WATER CLINICS COMMUNICABLE DISEASES CONTRACEPTION CONTRACEPTIVE USE DEATHS DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH DEVELOPING COUNTRIES DEVELOPMENT EFFORTS DIET DISSEMINATION DRUG ABUSE DRUGS EARLY CHILDHOOD ECONOMIC GROWTH EQUITABLE ACCESS ESSENTIAL HEALTH SERVICES FAMILIES FAMILY PLANNING FAMILY PLANNING SERVICES FEMALE FEMALE LITERACY FERTILITY FIGHT AGAINST POVERTY FINANCIAL RESOURCES GLOBAL HEALTH GLOBAL POVERTY HEALTH CARE HEALTH CARE COSTS HEALTH CARE EXPENDITURE HEALTH CARE NEEDS HEALTH CARE REFORM HEALTH CARE REFORMS HEALTH CARE RESOURCES HEALTH CARE SERVICES HEALTH CARE SYSTEMS HEALTH CONSEQUENCES HEALTH FACILITIES HEALTH FINANCING HEALTH NEEDS HEALTH OUTCOMES HEALTH POLICY HEALTH PROBLEMS HEALTH PROJECTS HEALTH REFORM HEALTH REFORMS HEALTH RESEARCH HEALTH SECTOR HEALTH SECTOR REFORM HEALTH SERVICES HEALTH SPENDING HEALTH STATUS HEALTH SYSTEM HEALTH SYSTEM REFORM HEALTH SYSTEMS HEALTHY ENVIRONMENT HIGH FERTILITY HIV/AIDS HOSPITAL HUMAN DEVELOPMENT ILL HEALTH ILLITERACY ILLNESS ILLNESSES IMMUNIZATION IMPACT OF AIDS IMPACT ON HEALTH INCOME INCOME GROUPS INFANT INFANT MORTALITY INFANTS INFORMAL SECTOR INJURIES INSTITUTIONAL CAPACITY INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON POPULATION INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS LAWS LIFE EXPECTANCY LIFE EXPECTANCY GAINS LIFESTYLES LITERACY RATES LIVING STANDARDS LOW INCOME LOW-INCOME COUNTRIES MALARIA MARRIED COUPLES MEASLES MORBIDITY MORTALITY NUMBER OF CHILDREN NUTRITION NUTRITION PROGRAMS PERINATAL CONDITIONS PHYSICIAN POLICY DIALOGUE POLICY RESEARCH POLIO POOR HEALTH POOR INDIVIDUALS POOR NUTRITION POOR PEOPLE POPULATION AND DEVELOPMENT POPULATION GROUPS POPULATION ISSUES POPULATION SECTOR POVERTY REDUCTION POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGY PRIMARY SCHOOL PRIVATE CLINICS PRIVATE SECTOR PROGRESS PUBLIC HEALTH PUBLIC POLICIES PUBLIC SECTOR REPRODUCTION REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH REPRODUCTIVE SERVICES RESPONSIBILITY OF GOVERNMENTS RURAL AREAS RURAL COMMUNITIES SAFE MOTHERHOOD SANITATION SCARCE RESOURCES SCHOOL HEALTH SEGMENTS OF SOCIETY SERVICE PROVIDERS SHARE OF PUBLIC SPENDING SOCIAL EXCLUSION SOCIAL SERVICES STRATEGY ON POPULATION STRESSES TUBERCULOSIS UNEMPLOYMENT UNIVERSAL ACCESS URBAN AREAS URBAN DEVELOPMENT VACCINES VULNERABILITY WORLD CONFERENCE WORLD CONFERENCE ON WOMEN WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/1999/02/10445764/xii-malente-symposium-health-care-systems-crossroads-drager-foundation http://hdl.handle.net/10986/13661

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Summary:	This report presents the chairman Bruntland speech on the remarkable achievements in health, nutrition, and population (delivered at the XII Malente Symposium of the Drager Foundation in Lubec). There have been greater gains in life expectancy and greater decreases in birth rates throughout the world in the past four decades than during the entire previous four centuries. In his speech chairman has cite few achievements such as: 1) people all over the world live almost 25 years longer today than they would have lived at similar income levels in 1900; 2) there have been huge gains in infant mortality: the proportion of children who die before reaching age five is now less than half the level it was in 1960; 3) contraceptive use in low- and middle-income countries rose from 10 percent of married couples in the mid- 1960s, to 55 percent in 1990; and as a result of this and other factors; and 4) on average, women choose (and are able to act on this choice) to have three children each, down from five in 1960. Even in his speech chairman points that enormous progress have been made in understanding the causes of diseases, and in developing effective preventive and curative interventions such as immunization and antibiotics, but still there are challenges in the health sector, and policy option to channel scarce resources to the poor.

Health Care Reforms that Serve the Poor

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