Communicable Disease and Disability of the Poor

Sergio Spinaci and David Heymann
Additional contact information
Sergio Spinaci: World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
David Heymann: World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

Development, 2001, vol. 44, issue 1, 66-72

Abstract: Sergio Spinaci and David Heymann argue that there are cost-effective interventions against the diseases which are causing 50 percent of preventable death among the poor. These interventions have been insufficiently prioritized within existing health systems, therefore their coverage and impact is still low. There are no technical reasons for such low coverage; the main reasons are insufficient human and financial resources and lack of ownership by communities. They suggest that we can build on successful examples of scaling-up interventions and apply them generally, but only if there is the political commitment by those in power able to shift resources to investing in health priorities for the poor. Development (2001) 44, 66–72. doi:10.1057/palgrave.development.1110216

Date: 2001
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (1)

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.palgrave-journals.com/development/journal/v44/n1/pdf/1110216a.pdf Link to full text PDF (application/pdf)
http://www.palgrave-journals.com/development/journal/v44/n1/full/1110216a.html Link to full text HTML (text/html)
Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:pal:develp:v:44:y:2001:i:1:p:66-72

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
http://www.springer. ... es/journal/41301/PS2

Access Statistics for this article

Development is currently edited by Stefano Prato

More articles in Development from Palgrave Macmillan, Society for International Deveopment Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().