healthcare

The relationship between poverty and health is bidirectional and context-dependent, making it far harder to address through policy than it might appear. While public health insurance and a focus on prevention offer the most promising routes to improving health among the poor, cash transfers and other income interventions have yielded ambiguous results.

Subsidising healthcare for children in Mali substantially increased necessary care-seeking while generating only minimal unnecessary use.

What role can policy play in reducing bias among healthcare providers?

The end of guerrilla violence in Colombia reshaped the composition of healthcare workers in conflict-affected areas. Despite redistributing healthcare workers away from these areas, they maintained service quality, offering valuable insights for publ...

Geographic patent pools boost drug licensing and commercialisation, expanding access to life-saving drugs in developing countries.

A shared performance incentive scheme for health workers and their supervisors improved productivity and health outcomes and was more effective than paying the incentive to only one group

Health sector regulation in Kenya increased the compliance of health facilities with a checklist of patient safety measures without any increase in prices or decrease in utilisation

Increasing the social accountability of health systems improves health outcomes and increases resilience against health shocks

Increasing across-hospital transfer coordination through app-based group chats led to large improvements in the survival rate of heart attack patients