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Health, poverty and vulnerability

Building the knowledge base for attaining equitable health in poor countries
This project completion report considers achievements made, risks encountered, and the lessons learned in DFID's support to ICDDR.B (Centre for Health and Population Research, Bangladesh and Sharan, India)

A public consultation on DFID's Health Strategy 2006: a synthesis of views
This report synthesises written submissions to DFID collected in July 2006 via a public consultation process. The report identifies gaps in the response to health challenges, key areas to be strengthened and outlines how health architecture can be improved to deliver better health for the poor.

Measuring health and poverty: a review of approaches to identifying the poor
This paper provides a critical review of methods for defining and measuring poverty.

Benefit incidence analysis: how can it contribute to our understanding of health systems reform?
This report examines benefit incidence analysis studies and outlines how they can help target limited resources towards the needs of the poor.

Assessing the health of the poor: towards a pro-poor measurement strategy
This paper reviews the range of tools used in collecting data on health and socioeconomic status and argues that very few of these methods are capable of providing information about the health of the very poor.

Becoming poverty-focused: implications for health
This paper explores approaches to understanding the links between poverty, vulnerability, exclusion and demand for health care, and outlines strategies to encourage an inter-sectoral and inclusive approach to health improvement and poverty reduction strategies.

Allocating public resources for health: developing pro-poor approaches
This paper focuses on the allocation of public resources, and the extent to which different approaches enable poor people to access essential services. It attempts to set out how a country might begin to allocate public resources in ways which promote better access by the poor to essential services.

Which health policies are pro-poor
This paper is an initial working paper from IHSD as the first output of work on pro-poor health policies. The work represents an attempt to look at the options for health policies and health system developments which can improve the health of poor people.