Contents: Foreword Lyn Squire Introduction Diana Pinto and Peter C. Smith PART I: HEALTH SYSTEM PERFORMANCE 1. Institutional Determinants of Productivity Change in Health Services Ravi P. Rannan-Eliya 2. Health Sector Outcomes in Bangladesh and Sri Lanka: A Tale of Two Countries Aparnaa Somanathan, Ravi P. Rannan-Eliya and Tahmina Begum PART II: HEALTH SYSTEM FINANCING 3. Preventing Impoverishment, Promoting Equity and Protecting Households from Financial Crisis: Universal Health Insurance through Institutional Reform in Mexico Felicia Marie Knaul, Hector Arreola-Ornelas, Oscar Mendez-Carniado and Martha Miranda-Munoz 4. Community Prepayment of Health Care and the Willingness to Pay: Evidence of Rural Households in the Central Cameroon Joachim Nyemeck Binam, Diarra Ibrahim and Valere Nkelzok 5. Risk Segmentation, Moral Hazard and Equity in Chile's Mandatory Health Insurance System Claudio Sapelli PART III: HEALTH SYSTEM DESIGN 6. Public Health Insurance, Access and Equity Peru's Mother-Infant Insurance Miguel Jaramillo 7. Getting to the Heart of the Matter: Hospital Competition and Cardiac Patients in Taiwan Hsien-Ming Lien, Shin-Yi Chou, Jin-Tan Liu and Jason Hockenberry 8. Water for Life: The Impact of the Privatization of Water Services on Child Mortality Sebastian Galiani, Paul Gertler and Ernesto Schargrodsky PART IV: HIV/AIDS IN THE DEVELOPING WORLD 9. Antenatal Clinics, Patients and HIV Prevalence in Cambodia Vonthanak Saphonn, Leng Bun Hor, Sun Penh Ly and Samrith Chhuon 10. Rural Household Vulnerability to HIV/AIDS and Economic Efficiency in Southern Part Nigeria A.S. Oyekale Index