The largest global equity gap in health, is among children, and concentrated in communicable diseases. This note … examines the work of the Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) - a strategy to improve child health outcomes …, developed by the World Health Organization, and the United Nations Children's Fund - whose aim is to reduce childhood deaths …

Interest in environmental health has increased in recent years, largely because the most vulnerable groups remain … disproportionately exposed to and affected by health risks from environmental hazards. More than 40 percent of the global burden of … inextricably linked, but these links have been forgotten or neglected by policy-makers. The World Health Organization (WHO …

This report builds on the World Bank's earlier report on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in India (2004 report … number 30266), which highlighted the challenges India faces in meeting a number of the MDGs. The report focuses on the state …

The Government of Tajikistan has identified Primary Heath Care (PHC), and Maternal and Child Health (MCH) as top … priorities in its first Comprehensive National Health Sector Strategy (2010-2020). The study findings which closely mirror those … of the 2009 World Health Organization (WHO)/United Nation children's Fund (UNICEF) Integrated Management of Childhood …

made by the Ministry of Health and donors during the last ten years. The data available from the three EDS are eloquent in … training of more health professionals who could take charge of childbirth assistance functions. …

-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. …