health of its population. This effort is part of the long-term vision of the country. Improving health status, especially for … reflected in the current Growth Strategy for Poverty Reduction (GPRS 2007-2009). Benin is particularly committed towards the … Millennium Development Goals, including 3 on the health sector. This review was also an opportunity to further analyze the …

The Government of Ethiopia has recently confirmed its commitment to accelerate progress on maternal and child health … outcomes. A reduction in child and maternal mortality rates is among the key objectives of the Ethiopia Poverty Reduction … essential health and nutrition services to the country's rural poor. Health outcomes are slowly improving but remain low …

The Government of Ethiopia has recently confirmed its commitment to accelerate progress on maternal and child health … outcomes. A reduction in child and maternal mortality rates is among the key objectives of the Ethiopia Poverty Reduction … essential health and nutrition services to the country's rural poor. Health outcomes are slowly improving but remain low …

about a dozen operations in the health and education sectors in Sub-Saharan Africa. This report reviews the experience to …

This study aims to contribute to the debate about the appropriateness of health-related Millennium Development Goals … focus of their health-related development assistance to the countries of the ECA region. The study examines how appropriate … the health-related MDGs are for the countries of the ECA region by analyzing the impact of the following four scenarios on …

. This book takes an in-depth look at health, nutrition, and population (HNP) challenges faced by Sub-Saharan Africa …, particularly how disease, malnutrition, and high fertility affect poverty reduction. The authors contend that the World Bank has a … comparative advantage in contributing within four broad areas: 1) macroeconomics and health, 2) multi-sectoral action for health …

School health and nutirion programs can contribue to achieving the goals of the Education for All initiative (EFA) by … depends on reaching the children most in need. One strong feature of school health and nutrition programs is that they benefit …

This report, which is a product of the World Bank's Recurso program - reviews Peru's recent advances in health sector … World Development Report (WDR 2004), it focuses on strengthening the accountability of health providers to users to leverage … improved service quality and outcomes. The report builds on the health chapter of the initial Recurso report, developing and …

Maternal health remains one of the top priorities of the Government of Indonesia (GoI) and the Ministry of Health (MoH … to health services, the government is implementing the social insurance scheme, Jamkesmas. Approximately 104 million … people should qualify for assistance but there are presently only 76.4 million people covered by this social health insurance …

This report analyzes fiscal space issues related to government health spending in Indonesia. Fiscal space refers to the …, Indonesia will need to boost health spending in the near future as it expands access to care through the expansion of Jamkesmas …, the health insurance scheme for the poor and near poor. In addition, projections based on demographic and epidemiological …