Promoting Health and Equity: Evidence, Policy and Action
Cases from the Western Pacific Region
WHO Regional Office for the Western Pacific
World Health Organization 2009
Available online PDF [178p.] at:
”….This book compiles nine cases. The introductory chapter comprises a synthesis of the cases and the lessons learned from them. Comparing and contrasting the different cases, it identifies key factors that stimulate policy-relevant research and better use of evidence for policy-making. These lessons can be especially valuable for developing countries, where resources are limited and better understanding of the trade-offs implied by alternative policy choices is needed…..”
Table of Contents
- Improving health equity through the use of evidence: cases from the Western Pacific Region
- Health financing strategies to improve access to health services for the poor in
— A case study of Health Equity Funds
- Research, intervention design and policy implementation of the New Rural Cooperative Medical Scheme in
- Health Care Fund for the Poor in
- Scaling up primary health care in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic using evidence from a long-term primary health care development project
- Promoting health equity: evidence, policy and action— The
- The development and targeting of malaria control interventions for populations in high transmission areas of
the influence of research on policy and practice
- Public-private mix DOTS: a strategy to engage all health care providers in tuberculosis control
and significantly increase access to DOTS services in the
- Geographic equity in distribution of scarce dialysis resources in
- Promoting health equity through capacity building of primary health care workers in
Website: http://www.wpro.who.int/publications/PUB_9879290614272.htm
Ms Mitra MOTLAGH, Equity, Gender & Human Rights
World Health Organization, Western Pacific Regional Office (WPRO)
Manila, Philippines - Phone: +632 528 9883 E-mail: MotlaghM@wpro.who.int
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