CONTENTS -- Acronyms -- Overview and Purpose -- Key Actions to Promote a Pro-poor Health Approach -- Summary -- I. Investing in health to reduce poverty -- II. Supporting pro-poor health systems -- III. Focusing on key policy areas for pro-poor health -- IV. Working through country-led strategic frameworks -- V. Promoting policy coherence and global public goods -- Chapter 1. Investing in Health to Reduce Poverty -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Poverty and health -- 3. The economic rationale for investing in the health of the poor -- 4. Defining a pro-poor health approach -- 5. The role of development co-operation in different country contexts -- 6. Mobilising resources for pro-poor health -- 7. Improving the effectiveness of development co-operation -- Notes -- Chapter 2. Supporting Pro-poor Health Systems -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Health-sector stewardship -- 3. Strengthening the delivery of health services -- 4. Provider pluralism and the challenge of health service delivery -- 5. Developing equitable health financing mechanisms -- Notes -- Chapter 3. Key Policy Areas for Pro-poor Health -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Education as a tool for improved health outcomes -- 3. Food security, nutrition and health -- 4. Poverty, health and the environment -- 5. Violence and injuries as a public health issue -- Notes -- Chapter 4. Frameworks and Instruments for Health Programming and Monitoring -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Development co-operation instruments for pro-poor health -- 3. Poverty reduction strategies and health -- 4. Health-sector programmes and their effectiveness in reducing poverty -- 5. Measuring and monitoring progress -- Notes -- Chapter 5. Policy Coherence and Global Public Goods -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Global Public Goods for health -- 3. Health, trade and development -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 1. HIV/AIDS: a development problem.

2. Tobacco, alcohol and drug abuse: preventable causes of poverty and ill health -- 3. The role of information and communication technology in pro-poor health systems -- 4. What is the private health sector? -- 5. Output-based approaches to aid -- 6. The Aga Khan Health Service approach to user fees -- 1. Official development assistance (ODA) to health, 1996-2001: annual average commitment and share in total aid allocated by sector -- 2. Health-related Millennium Development Goals -- 1. Sub-sectoral breakdown of ODA to health, 1999-2001 -- 2. The Main Determinants of Health.