Private health care in low-income and middle-income countries is very extensive and very
heterogeneous, ranging from itinerant medicine sellers, through millions of independent …

Present elimination strategies are based on recommendations derived during the Global
Malaria Eradication Program of the 1960s. However, many countries considering elimination …

Over the next 20 years, most low-income countries will, for the first time, become more urban
than rural. Understanding demographic trends in the cities of the developing world is critical …

For more than 50 years, low-cost antimalarial drugs silently saved millions of lives and cured
billions of debilitating infections. Today, however, these drugs no longer work against the …

In this lesson-packed book, Mark Nichter, one of the world's leading medical
anthropologists, summarizes what more than a quarter-century of health social science …

■ 2000: African heads of state met in a historic summit in Abuja, Nigeria, to express their
personal commitment to tackling malaria and to establish targets for implementing the …

Objective To review the evidence on the link between malaria and poverty. Methods Review
of the published and grey literature to identify (i) the data available on the socio‐economic …

A very large private health sector exists in low-income countries. It consists of a great variety
of providers and is used by a wide cross-section of the population. There are substantial …

This new edition examines the economics of health care systems in a non-technical manner.
It is written in a highly accessible manner for economists and non-economists alike. It is very …

Despite significant successes in controlling a number of communicable diseases in low and
middle income countries, important challenges remain, one being that a large proportion of …