Reaching the poor with health, nutrition, and population services : what works, what doesn't, and why

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Reaching the poor with health, nutrition, and population services : what works, what doesn't, and why

Title remainder

what works, what doesn't, and why

Statement of responsibility

[edited by] Davidson R. Gwatkin, Adam Wagstaff, Abdo Yazbeck

Contributor

• Gwatkin, Davidson R
• Wagstaff, Adam
• Gwatkin, Davidson R
• Yazbeck, Abdo
• Yazbeck, Abdo
• Wagstaff, Adam

Subject

• Health services accessibility -- Cross-cultural studies
• Health services accessibility -- Developing countries
• Human services -- Cross-cultural studies
• Human services -- Developing countries
• Poor -- Developing countries -- Nutrition
• Poor -- Medical care -- Cross-cultural studies
• Poor -- Medical care -- Developing countries
• Poor -- Nutrition -- Cross-cultural studies

Genre

• Cross-cultural studies

Language

eng

Summary

This volume presents eleven case studies that document how well or poorly health, nutrition, and population programs have reached disadvantaged groups in the countries of Africa, Asia, and Latin America where they were undertaken. The studies were commissioned by the Reaching the Poor Program, undertaken by the Word Bank in cooperation with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Dutch and Swedish governments, in an effort to find better ways of ensuring that health, nutrition, and population programs benefit the neediest. These case studies, reinforced by other material gathered by the

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• Online access with subscription: Proquest Ebook Central

Cataloging source

CaPaEBR

Dewey number

362.1/086/942

Index

index present

LC call number

RA418.5.P6

LC item number

R43 2005eb

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• standards specifications
• bibliography