Documents et rapports
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Demographic Trends in China from 1950 to 1982 (anglais)
For many years, very little hard information was available about the population of the People's Republic of China. This unsatisfactory situation has changed completely in the last four years. A flood of...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: WDP22 Date du document: 29 février 1988 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Hill, Kenneth
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Price and income elasticities of demand for modern health care : the case of infant delivery in the Philippines (anglais)
This study examines the economic determinants of the demand for infant delivery in the Cebu region of the Philippines. In the Philippines, as in many low-income countries, there has been a major commitment...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: PHN8723 Date du document: 31 décembre 1987 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Schwartz, J. Brad,Akin, John S.,Popkin, Barry M.
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The financing and economics of hospitals in developing countries : key issues and research questions (anglais)
In recent years, the attention of policy makers and researchers has been directed at primary health care, with little notice taken of hospitals except to observe that they take a disproportionate share...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: PHN8720 Date du document: 31 décembre 1987 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Mills, Anne
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The development, growth, and distribution of public and private medical resources in the Philippines (anglais)
Countries typically plan their medical care systems by focusing on broad measures of health status, geographic accessibility of government facilities, and general theories of how health services should...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: PHN8724 Date du document: 31 décembre 1987 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Griffin, Charles C.,Paqueo, Vicente B.
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Financing health services : some speculations and an example from Indonesia (anglais)
This paper is intended to supplement the existing literature on health service financing schemes and the choice of government versus private sector provision of health services. While this literature has...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: PHN8722 Date du document: 31 décembre 1987 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Helminiak, Thomas,Andreano, Ralph
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Nutrition review (anglais)
This report reviews PHN project and sector work, and Bank-financed research in nutrition from 1976 to 1984, identifies major successes and weaknesses, and recommends future directions for the Bank's work...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: PHN8721 Date du document: 31 décembre 1987 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Berg,Alan D.
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Population projections 1987-88 : short and long-term estimates (Vol. 3 of 4) : Latin America and Caribbean region (anglais)
Population projections from 1985 to 2030 for every country in the World Bank's regions are reported. Age structure and demographic indicators are given for each quinquennium. Demographic indicators are...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: PHN8719 Date du document: 1 décembre 1987 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Zachariah, K. C.,My T. Vu
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Population projections 1987-88 : short and long-term estimates (Vol. 1 of 4) : Africa region (anglais)
Population projections from 1985 to 2030 for every country in the World Bank's regions are reported. Age structure and demographic indicators are given for each quinquennium. Demographic indicators are...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: PHN8719 Date du document: 1 décembre 1987 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Zachariah, K. C.,My T. Vu
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Population projections 1987-88 : short and long-term estimates (Vol. 4 of 4) : Europe, Middle East, and North Africa region (anglais)
Population projections from 1985 to 2030 for every country in the World Bank's regions are reported. Age structure and demographic indicators are given for each quinquennium. Demographic indicators are...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: PHN8719 Date du document: 1 décembre 1987 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Zachariah, K. C.,My T. Vu
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Population projections 1987-88 : short and long-term estimates (Vol. 2 of 4) : Asia region (anglais)
Population projections from 1985 to 2030 for every country in the World Bank's regions are reported. Age structure and demographic indicators are given for each quinquennium. Demographic indicators are...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: PHN8719 Date du document: 1 décembre 1987 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Zachariah, K. C.,My T. Vu
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Physician education in third world countries : with special reference to sub-Saharan Africa (anglais)
This report reviews reasons for current inadequacies in third world physician education. These include the global economic recession; fall-off of recruitment of overseas workers; inappropriate western...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: PHN8714 Date du document: 30 juin 1987 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Stuart, Sir Kenneth
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Simulations of some alternative policies for the Brazilian social security system (anglais)
This paper reviews the Brazilian social security system and analyzes the reasons for its growth and financial imbalance. A key variable affecting the system's financial equilibrium is the ratio of workers...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: PHN8718 Date du document: 30 juin 1987 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Barrets de Oliveira, Francisco,Fernandes da Trin
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Household income and child survival in Egypt (anglais)
The relationship between household income and child survival is examined utilizing household economic and fertility data from Egypt. Neither total household income nor per capita household income show...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: PHN8712 Date du document: 30 juin 1987 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Casterline, John B.,Cooksey, Elizabeth C.,Abdel
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Tobacco in developing countries : an economic approach to policy formulation (anglais)
This paper examines tobacco policies for less developed countries within the neo-classical welfare economics framework. The need for tobacco policies arises because tobacco consumption can be an important...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: PHN8715 Date du document: 30 juin 1987 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Lewit, Eugene M.
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Hospital expenditure in Indonesia (anglais)
This study applies the recurrent cost projection procedures to estimate the costs of Indonesia's current plans for the hospital subsector and compare the recurrent cost implications of alternative investment...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: PHN8717 Date du document: 30 juin 1987 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Barnum,Howard Nelch
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The Ammanpettai incentive family welfare and child spacing program (anglais)
The Ammanpettai incentive family planning program was launched in February 1985 in the state of Tamil Nadu, India. This paper reviews the experience of the program in its first 10 months of operation...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: PHN8713 Date du document: 30 juin 1987 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Stevens, Carl M.
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User charges for health care in principle and practice (anglais)
Health services consume valuable resources -- equipment, buildings, pharmaceuticals, supplies, and the services of highly trained professionals. How countries pay for and allocate those resources strongly...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: PHN8716 Date du document: 30 juin 1987 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Griffin,Charles C.
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The impact of modernization on the motivation for fertility control, Egypt, 1979-80 (anglais)
Because of the importance of motivation as a determinant of Egyptian contraceptive use, this paper investigates which aspects of modernization significantly affect the supply and demand components of motivation...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: PHN8710 Date du document: 31 mai 1987 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Easterlin, Richard,Crimmins, Eileen M.,Mohamed A
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Population dynamics in Northeast Brazil (anglais)
This paper reviews recent trends in fertility, mortality, migration, urbanization and population growth in Northeast Brazil and makes projections for the urban and rural populations of the region. The...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: PHN8708 Date du document: 31 mai 1987 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Hill,Althea L.
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Determinants of fertility control in Egypt, 1979-80 (anglais)
Based on a supply-demand theory of contraceptive use, this paper empirically investigates variations in deliberate fertility control among Egyptian women aged 35-44 in 1979-80. The results point to the...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: PHN8709 Date du document: 31 mai 1987 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Easterlin, Richard,Crimmins, Eileen M.,Khodair,