Ensuring health services for the ultra poor in Bangladesh : BRAC experience
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2004
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Given that the poor are not a homogenous group and that different sub-groups have different health needs, Building Resources Across Communities (BRAC) has developed a new strategy. The ‘pushing down’ strategy includes a special investment program in the form of a grant of productive assets and stipend, skill development training to use the assets, and the provision of essential health care. The ‘pushing out’ strategy focuses on the policies, structures and institutions reproducing and sustaining poverty and vulnerability. BRAC is the largest non-governmental organization (NGO) in the world.
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HEALTH SERVICES, POVERTY ALLEVIATION, ACCESS TO HEALTH CARE, HEALTH FINANCING, POLICY MAKING, LOCAL GOVERNMENT, BANGLADESH, MALNUTRITION, ABSOLUTE POVERTY, SOUTH ASIA