Transforming the Latvian health system : accessibility of health services from a pro-poor perspective

Die Transformation des lettischen Gesundheitssystems : der Zugang zu Gesundheitsdiensten aus einer Perspektive, die für die Armen Partei ergreift

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Müller, Katharina; Kehler, Jenni; Lechner, Stefan; Neunsinger, Sven; Rabe, Florian

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Corporate Editor	Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik gGmbH
Abstract	"Improving the health status of the poor and addressing their specific health needs is crucial for poverty alleviation. In this context, the design of health care systems is one of several key challenges. This study analyses the accessibility of the Latvian health care system from a pro-poor perspective. What access barriers currently affect poor and vulnerable inhabitants of Latvia? How can these barriers be removed and the health care system be made more pro-poor? In this analysis of the Latvian health care system, three relevant dimensions of accessibility are identified: the financial, the geographical, and the informational one. For each dimension, barriers to access, existing measures to overcome these and their limits are discussed and reform proposals made. Overall, efforts to enhance the access of poor and vulnerable groups to the Latvian health care system must tackle the pooling and funding side, improve the overall stewardship of health care and social protection, and meet with a supportive general political framework." (author's abstract)
Classification	Health Policy; Medicine, Social Medicine
Method	applied research
Free Keywords	Gesundheitswesen; Lettland; Armut; Finanzierung; geographische Faktoren; Information; Gesundheitsvorsorge; soziale Sicherung; Baltikum; UdSSR-Nachfolgestaat; postsozialistisches Land
Document language	English
Publication Year	2005
City	Bonn
Page/Pages	126 p.
Series	DIE Studies, No. 7
ISBN	3-88985-289-0
Licence	Deposit Licence - No Redistribution, No Modifications
Document Type	research report
data provider	This metadata entry was indexed by the Special Subject Collection Social Sciences, USB Cologne

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