The findings reveal how healthcare costs, quality, and physical barriers play differing roles in the countries studied in preventing access, and how families are often impoverished by accessing needed care.

In Bangladesh, despite substantial gains in child and overall health, most mothers give birth outside health facilities, and many sick children do not receive appropriate medical care.

This country brief presents findings from analysis of the Papua New Guinea Household Survey 1996 and Household Income and Expenditure Survey 2009–2010, depicting how healthcare utilization has changed over a 13-year period.