Poverty Objectives and Economic Analysis of Health Projects

John Weiss

Chapter 15 in Development Planning and Poverty Reduction, 2003, pp 231-245 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract As a means of addressing poverty reduction in low-income countries, a focus on primary healthcare has become increasingly common amongst all the main international donors. Unsurprisingly, poor people (that is, those below a national poverty line) tend to have poorer diets and access to sanitary facilities and a significantly lower life expectancy than even the average citizen in a poor country. The issue this brief chapter addresses, is how far recent developments in economic analysis of health projects can assist in ensuring that health project selection is geared to a development agenda that has, as an explicit goal, a large reduction in absolute (and indeed also relative) poverty.

Keywords: Premature Death; Health Project; Disability Weight; National Poverty Line; Temporary Disability (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2003
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DOI: 10.1057/9781403943743_15

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