Targeting Health Programs to Reach the Poor

Targeting Health Programs to Reach the Poor

In principle, the efficiency of poverty-oriented social programs can be increased dramatically through “targeting” an infelicitous term applied to efforts to focus development programs more directly on the poor. By one widely-cited estimate, a set of “perfectly targeted”...

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Main Author: Gwatkin, Davidson R
Format: Working Paper
Language:English
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2018
Subjects:
TARGETING
HEALTH SERVICES
POVERTY ALLEVIATION
HEALTH CARE
PROJECT DESIGN
PRIMARY HEALTH CARE
PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE
SERVICE DELIVERY
LIVING STANDARDS MEASUREMENT
IMMUNIZATION
DISEASE CONTROL
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/152331520426041781/Targeting-health-programs-to-reach-the-poor
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/29585

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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/152331520426041781/Targeting-health-programs-to-reach-the-poor
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/29585

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