Understanding Peace and Security

This is a fresh contribution to what we know about the role of poverty and low income in the health of individuals and households in developing countries.

This book presents the reader with a clear picture of the key aspects of the relationship between poverty, health and health care. It shows how the health status of individuals (especially the poor) in developing countries is particularly important from an economic perspective because of the accentuated impact ill health has on productivity, human capital efficiency and the subsequent levels of well-being in these countries.

In order to present this rounded picture, this study examines the mechanisms through which the poor are made more vulnerable through sickness and subsequently stay in or move into poverty. It then extends this understanding by providing a quantitative approach in establishing how poverty can influence health care demand and health care insurance.

This text will be of great interest to all students and scholars of politics, economics, sociology and development.

This book was previously published as a special issue of the Journal of Development Studies.

1. Health, Health Care, Poverty and Well Being: An Overview David Hulme and David Lawson  2. The Impact of Poverty on Health Status and Health Care Demand Behaviour of Rural Households - Evidence from Ethiopia Abay Asfaw  3. Determinants of the Choice of Health Care Facility Utilized by Individuals in HIV/AIDS-Affected Households in the Free State Province of South Africa Martine Visser and Frederik le Roux Booysen  5. Womens Health, Child Malnutrition and Intergenerationally Transmitted Chronic Poverty: Does Women’s Agency Matter? Sharifa Begum and Binayak Sen  6. The Influence of Ill Health on Chronic and Transient Poverty: Evidence From Uganda David Lawson  7. Health Sector Programs and Well Being: Ensuring the Poor Can Benefit from a Sector-Wide Approach Marko Nokkala  8. To What Extent is the Efficiency of Public Health Expenditure Determined by the Status of Health? Shawna Grosskopf, Sharmistha Self and Osman Zaim  9. Impact of Community Health Funds on the Access to Health Care: Empirical Evidence from Rural Tanzania John Msuya, Johannes Jutting and Abay Asfaw  10. Demand for Voluntary Health Insurance by the Poor in Developing Countries: Evidence from Rural Ghana Isaac Osei-Akoto  11. Health Insurance for the Poor? Determinants of Participation in Community Based Health Insurance Schemes in Rural Senegal Johannes Jutting