Searching for Essential Health Services in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Review of Recent Studies on Health Priorities

摘要: The main focus of this paper is the application explicit criteria to set health priorities in lending projects and sector work. It draws lessons from 24 studies undertaken low- middle-income countries 1993 1996. describes characteristics studies, assesses their technical quality policy relevance, summarizes first two stages which culminated with publication World Development Report: Investing Health (World Bank 1993). organized into six chapters: Chapter I logic behind setting briefly reviews antecedents through criteria. II studies. Chapters III IV on evaluation information, methods indicators design packages essential services. V reports disease results cost effectiveness analyzes. Finally, lastly, VI identifies research development needs improve future