Investing in One Health - cross-sectoral, multidisciplinary coordination and collaboration across the human health …, animal health, and environmental health sectors - is crucial for maintaining healthy agricultural and food systems and … addressing global health security risks. Such action can reduce the threat of future pandemics through upstream preventive …

The Indonesian health sector is currently experiencing a financing transition that will have a profound impact on the … country's efforts to achieve universal health coverage (UHC) and national health goals. The transition is marked, on the one … hand, by increasing per capita expenditure on health and, on the other, by declining of out-of-pocket payments (OOP) and a …

levels as part of a broader approach to strengthen health systems. It is an agenda that not only seeks to deliver on the Bank … through a wider health system strengthening agenda. Policy commitments from IDA's Human capital special themes support the … building of resilient health systems that can provide core essential health services and have the capacity to prevent, detect …

of pathogens spilling over from animals to people. To decrease their burden, we must focus on prevention. The One Health … approach proposes a way forward to reduce risk of spillover. Recognizing that the health and well-being of humans, animals, and … their shared ecosystems are interdependent, One Health is designed as an integrated, practical, multisectoral framework for …

Central Asia has made much progress in public health and animal health in the last 20 years but was as unprepared as … public health concern because of the possible transmission of pathogens to humans. They can spread quickly from one country … to another, with impact on animal health, trade, food security, food safety and possibly creating public health …

While on-track for child health and maternal health MDGs, Lao PDR continues to have some of the worst maternal and … child health (MCH) outcomes, both globally and in the East Asia and Pacific (EAP) region. Under-five and infant mortality … rates are high relative to GDP per capita, and utilization of essential health services is low, given significant demand …

Lao PDR has made notable progress in improving maternal health, with materanal mortality decreasing from 1,600 per 100 … addressed - the low utilization of maternal health (MH) services and weak financial protection, especially among the lower … wealth quintiles, in order to improve the level and equity of maternal health. In order to address these financial barriers …