Improving Maternal and Child Health in Difficult Environments: The Case For “Cross-Border” Health Care

Improving Maternal and Child Health in Difficult Environments: The Case For “Cross-Border” Health Care

Health in Action T he evidence base on organising, delivering, and paying for effective and equitable health services in any resource-constrained setting is very weak [1]. To make health service delivery work in difficult environments, such as Badakhshan province in Afghanistan, the Northern Areas of Pakistan, and Gorno-Badakhshan province in Tajikistan, substantial challenges must be addressed...

Reflections on Health Tourism and Cross-Border Health Care

Public Provision and Cross-Border Health Care

We study how the optimal public provision of health care depends on whether or not individuals have an option to seek publicly financed treatment in other regions. We find that, relative to the first-best solution, the government has an incentive to over-provide health care to low-income individuals. When crossborder health care takes place, this incentive is solely explained by that overprovis...

[Improving the quality of maternal and child health services].

Johnson & Johnson Indonesia, PT (J&J) and the Indonesian Midwives Association (Ikatan Bidan Indonesia or IBI) have partnered since 2006 to improve the quality of services provided by privatesector midwives in Indonesia through the Bidan Delima (BD) program. IBI is a nationwide association of midwives that includes both government and privatesector midwives. The BD program is designed to standar...

Maternal and Child Health