Reaching the Poor with Health Services: What Works, What Doesn't, and Why
Edited by Davidson R. Gwatkin, Adam Wagstaff, Abdo S. Yazbeck

  World Bank, Gates Foundation. Dutch and Swedish 
Governments,  online as PDF file [354p.] at:
<http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTPAH/Resources/Reaching-the-Poor/c
omplete.pdf>

"...Health services can make an important contribution to improved 
health conditions among disadvantaged groups. Yet, the services 
supported by governments and development agencies too often fail to 
reach these people who need them most.

This is not acceptable. Nor need it be accepted. For there are 
numerous exceptions to the normal pattern of inequitable service 
delivery. These demonstrate the feasibility of reaching the poor much 
more effectively than at present, and point to promising ways for 
doing so....."

Reaching the Poor with Health, Nutrition, and Population Services 
marshals the available evidence about pro-poor strategies that have 
proven to be effective and that can help in the development of 
programs to better assist disadvantaged groups. In doing so, it can serve as a
resource for policy makers, development practitioners, and policy 
analysts concerned with health conditions among the poor.


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