Program Conference

In February 2004, the Reaching the Poor Program sponsored a global conference that brought together both investigators that it had supported and other researchers examining how well health and other social programs reach disadvantaged groups.  The conference, part of the Program's dissemination effort, was designed to assemble as much evidence as possible in order to produce policy guidance.  The 36 conference presentations covered well over 100 programs.   

Child Health

• The Family Health Program in Brazil:  Coverage and Access
  Aluísio J D Barros, Andréa D Bertoldi and Cesar G Victora
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• Targeted Interventions in Health Care:  The case of PROMIN
  Sebastián Galiani, Mercedes Fernández, and Ernesto Schargrodsky
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• Assessing Changes in Targeting in Health and Nutrition Policies:  the Case of Argentina
  Leonardo Gasparini, Monica Panadeiros
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Immunization

• Immunization Divide:  Who do get vaccinated in Bangladesh?
  A. Mushtaque, R. Chowdhury
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• Reaching basic immunization services to Poor Children in India
  G.N.V. Ramana
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• Survey Results following the June 2003 Measles Partnerships Mass Vaccination Campaign in Zambia
  Joel Selanikio
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AIDS/TB/Malaria

• Mosquito nets, social marketing and equity in rural southern Tanzania
  Rose Nathan
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• Linking Distribution of Insecticide-Treated Nets to measles Vaccination Campaigns to Achieve High, Equitable and Rapid Coverage at Low Cost
  Mark Grabowsky;  Theresa Nobiya;  Mercy Ahun;  Rose Donna;  Joel Selanikio;  Miata Lengor;  Drake Zummerman;  Holly Ladd, Edward Hoekstra, Aliu Bello, Aba Baffoe-Wilmost, George Amofah
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• An Analysis of the Uptake of Public Sector Voluntary Counseling and Testing Services by Socio-Economic Group:  A South African Case Study
  Michael Thiede, Natasha Palmer, Sandi Mbatsha
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• Utization of Tuberculosis Control Services in Kenya:  Analysis of Wealth Inequalities
  Christy Hanson
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• Improving Access to DOTS for the Poor in Malawi
  Julia Kemp, Gillian Mann, Bertha Nhlema, FML Salaniponi, S. Bertel Squire
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• Reaching the Poorest:  SEWA's Experience with TB DOTS Services
  Mittal Shah, Kent Ranson, Palak Joshi
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Nutrition

• An assessment of the Distribution of Benefits Among Program Participants with Different Levels of Assets
  Harry Cummings, Linda Beyer, Carolyn MacDonald, Tariq Bhanjee
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• Assessing Changes in Targeting in Health and Nutrition and Nutritioin Policies:  The Case of Argentina
  Leonardo Gasparini, Mónica Panadeiros
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• Benefit Incidence Analysis for Public Child Health and Nutrition Programs in Peru
  Martin Valdivia
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Reproductive Health

• Inequalities in Utlization of Maternal Health Care Services:  Evidence from Matlab, Bangladesh
  Iqbal Anwar
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• The Impact of a Community-Based Participatory Program on Socioeconomic Disadvantage in Youth Reproductive Health Outcomes in Nepal
  Anju Malhotra,  Sanyukta Mathur, Rohini Pande, Eva Roca
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• Reaching the Poorest:  SEWA's Experience with Reproductive Health Camps
  Mittal Shah, Kent Ranson & Palak Joshi
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Health Systems

• Service Delivery Surveys in the Health and Population Sector in Bangladesh:  Monitoring the Health and Population Sector Programme 1998 - 2003
  Anne Cockcroft
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• Who Benefits from Public Spending:  Patterns from Statiic Expenditure Incidence Analysis
  Deon Filmer
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• Who Benefits from Public Health Care in Asia?
  Aparnaa Somanathan
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• Reaching the Poor in Kenya Through the Private Sector
  Dominic Montagu, Martha M. Campbell, Julia Walsh, Solomon Orero
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• Effect of Quality Improvements on Equity of Health Service Utilization and Patient Satisfaction in Uttar Pradesh, India
  David Peters, Krishna Rao
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• Reducing Inequity in the Provision of Primary Health Care Services:  Contracting in Cambodia
  J. Brad Schwartz, Indu Bhushan
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Health Financing

• Reaching the Poor:  The Case of Universal Coverage in Thailand
  Chutima Suraratdecha, Somying Saithanu, Viroj Tangcharoensathien
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• Quantifying Equity and Impoverishment in Utilization and Financing of Health Care in Rwanda
  Pia Schneider
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• Health Insurance for the Poor in Vietnam:  An Impact Evaluation of Vietnam's Health Insurance Program
  Adam Wagstaff and Menno Pradhan
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Other Sectors

• Targeting Outcomes Redux
  David Coady, John Hoddinett, Margaret Grosh
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• Evaluating Social Funds:  A Cross-Country Analysis of Community Investments
  Laura Rawlings
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• An Operational Method for Assessing the Poverty Outreach of Development Policies and Projects:  Case Studies from Asia, Africa, and Latin America
  Manohar Sharma
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Methods and Data Workshop

Session 1

1. Measuring Socioeconomic Status;  Abdo Yazbeck, Magnus Lindelow
2. Data: Types and Sources;  Abdo Yazbeck

Session 2

1. Achievement Index: Immunization in India;  Abdo Yazbeck
2. Benefit Incidence Analysis;  Abdo Yazbeck
3. Measuring inequalities in health;  Adam Wagstaff
4. Unraveling the causes of health inequalities;  Adam Wagstaff

 

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