Poverty and Medical Care

Exposing poverty and inspiring medical humanitarianism.

Valuing Government Expenditures: the Case O F Medical Care Transfers and Poverty*

This paper explores the choices and potential biases involved in valuing one type of government expenditure, medical transfers, and in estimating its antipoverty impact. Three methodological approaches-(a measure of) government costs, (a measure of) cash-equivalent values and (a measure of) funds released-are contrasted both in concept and in practice. We assign benefits to individuals after as...

Poverty and health care demand in Kenya

BACKGROUND There is a wide range of actions an individual could take when sick or injured such as self-care, consulting a traditional healer, or seeking treatment from a private or public health care facility. The specific action taken is influenced by individual characteristics, provider characteristics, societal factors, and geographical factors. A key individual characteristic is the ability...

Poverty, Children’s Health, and Health Care Utilization

Children in higher income families are less likely than poor children to be without a regular source of health care. However, insurance coverage makes a real difference for poor children in terms of access to health care. Among all poor children under six years of age, 21 percent of those without health insurance had no usual source of care, compared with 4 percent of poor children covered by i...

Medical History and Medical Care

that the nursing sisters of a French asylum recognized that a patient's behaviour seemed to be that of an epileptic, but she does notfall. 'Les religieuses me disent: "elle est mechante comme une epileptique, mais elle ne tombe pas." ' The revision has taken into account such concepts as psychomotor epilepsy and temporal lobe epilepsy, 'which were as yet rare or non-existent at the writing of t...