Laboratories have historically been under supported in developing country health systems resulting in poor quality … funding for broader public health laboratory services has been relatively neglected. In this paper the authors present a … resources for health research and more activity in this area will lead to greater understanding of the problems and provide more …

China has made great progress in improving maternal and child health (MCH). It reduced maternal deaths from 1,500 per …

impressive decline going from 142 to 42 deaths per 1,000 births between 1990 and 2012. This Health, Nutrition, and Population …

-specific interventions, but also exploring costs for a selected number of nutrition-sensitive interventions implemented outside of the health … health, social protection, education, and agriculture sectors. …

Information and communication technologies (ICT) for health or eHealth solutions hold great potential for generating … systemic efficiencies by strengthening five critical pillars of a health system: human resources for health, supply chain … management, health care financing, governance and service delivery, and infrastructure. This report describes the changing …

Beginning in 2003, Turkey initiated a series of reforms under the Health Transformation Program (HTP) that over the … past decade have led to the achievement of universal health coverage (UHC). The progress of Turkey?s health system has few … ? if any ? parallels in scope and speed. Before the reforms, Turkey?s aggregate health indicators lagged behind those of …

baseline and end line surveys of the Family Advancement for Life and Health (FALAH 2007-2012) project; and the Pakistan … Demographic Health Survey (PDHS) of 1990-1991 and of 2006-2007, this study explores Pakistani (especially Punjabi) couples … reproductive health interventions for men in Punjab. Yet heavy spending on media campaigns may not be as effective as interpersonal …

A consensus exists that rising income levels and technological development are among the key drivers of total health … spending. However, determinants of public sector health expenditure are less well understood. This study examines a complex … relationship across government health expenditure (GHE), sociopolitical risks, and international aid, while taking into account the …

The aim of the report is to review existing approaches and available policy options to improve access to health care … services and financial protection against health shocks for informal-sector workers (ISWs). Along with their families, ISWs … informal sector and the literature on efforts toward its health insurance coverage. It also examines several country cases …

on the cyclical patterns of government health spending. This descriptive analysis, which covers 183 countries between … 1995 and 2010, provides empirical evidence on the cyclicality of government health expenditures, using panel data from a … global macro database, the fiscal health database. The objective is to propose user-friendly diagnostic approaches in this …