This research aims to investigate the impact of COVID-19 vaccinations and fear indices on healthcare stock index prices in Southeast Asia during the vaccination rollout. The authors analyzed four Southeast Asian countries (i. e., Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, and Thailand) during the period of...

Costa Rica fue uno de los primeros países en la región de América Latina y el Caribe en elegir el instrumento de financiamiento Programa para Resultados (PforR) del Banco Mundial para respaldar la implementación de la Agenda Estratégica para el Fortalecimiento del Seguro de Salud por parte...

The health system in Serbia faces significant challenges arising from a long-term demographic trend and the recent shock caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Serbia's population is aging at a rapid pace, and the share of the population aged 65 and above almost doubled -from 9.6 percent to 18.7...

The results of the assessment point to four policy recommendations toaddress challenges related to governance, availability of medicines andsupplies, comprehensiveness of services, and ability to deliver adolescent sexual and reproductive health (ASRH) services and promote universaland effective...

Health systems' weakness remains one of the primary obstacles towards achieving universal access to quality healthcare in low-income settings. Performance-based financing (PBF) programs have been increasingly used to increase access to quality care in LMICs. However, evidence on the impacts of...

This report presents the findings of the primaryhealth care (PHC) system assessment in theRepublic of Moldova undertaken by the WorldBank in collaboration with the Moldovangovernment and under the leadership ofthe Ministry of Health (MoH). It highlightsexisting strengths, identifies areas in...

The aim of this report is to document the fidelity of the implementationof the RIPSS in the Huetar-Atlántica Region in Costa Rica. Implementationfidelity seeks to assess the extent to which an intervention is implementedas planned and, for this, the PIPs were contrasted with what wasimplemented...

While the incidence of COVID-19 in Belize has subsided, the lasting healthand economic impacts caused by the pandemic have demonstrated theneed to build a resilient health system. The most recent figures from theStatistical institute of Belize confirm that there have been over 60,000cases and...

Costa Rica fue uno de los primeros países en la región de América Latina y el Caribe en elegir el instrumento de financiamiento Programa para Resultados (PforR) del Banco Mundial para respaldar la implementación de la Agenda Estratégica para el Fortalecimiento del Seguro de Salud por parte...