Health Affairs

Health Affairs, 28, no. 4 (2009): 996 doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.28.4.996 © 2009 by Project HOPE	New Online   Reinhardt: Post-Summit   Report from the Summit   President's Reform Proposal   Rising Medicare Costs   Spending for Immigrants   $2.5 Trillion U.S. Health Tab   Child Obesity Briefing

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Care Delivery

PROLOGUE

Improving Care Delivery

Improving the delivery of health care services is challenging enough for nations that enjoy relative wealth, stability, and a large corps of medical professionals. But the path to better health care is made exponentially more difficult for countries confronting widespread poverty, shortages of health care providers, geographically remote populations, or even political upheaval. This collection of papers crisscrosses the globe from India to Estonia to Ecuador on a tour that chronicles vastly different challenges to improving health care.

In this issue’s Report from the Field, Nellie Bristol reports on maternal deaths—an intractable problem that graphically reflects disparities between rich and . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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