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 …

Leaving no one behind is a central promise of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, which recognizes health as a … fundamental human right. Achieving Universal Health Coverage (UHC) is key to delivering on this promise. UHC ensures that everyone … receives good quality health services, when and where needed, without incurring financial hardship arising from payments made …

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 Palestinian health system suffers from chronic challenges related to protracted conflict and limited health system … particularly different from comparable middle-income settings, the Palestinian health system is not able to effectively control … this burden due to its unique political and economic context. Over the past two decades, the health system has evolved to …

This paper presents a rapid private health sector assessment for Karnataka. Karnataka is a middle-tier Indian state … with most state-wide health indicators mirroring those for the nation as a whole. In addition to these health statistics …, more than half of Karnataka's children suffer from malnutrition. Improving primary health care services is a key to …

There is little current information available on private health facilities in Bihar. Government has little to do with … know that the private sector is the dominant force in health care provision both for outpatient and inpatient services …. During site visits to Patna and the neighboring districts, author saw a number of private health clinics clustered by main …

Myanmar exhibits poor health outcomes and lags regional peers. Myanmar's Human Capital Index (HCI) score is 0 … coverage (access, utilization, and quality) of service delivery in the health sector plays a fundamental role. Budget execution … remains prominent among PFM challenges in the health sector, demonstrated by several roadblocks to spending on time and on …

for health. This report aims to provide a snapshot of the current health financing system of Lao PDR and to identify … critical constraints and opportunities facing the health care system as the country undergoes transitions in demographics …, epidemiology and health financing. In addition to reviewing the overall health financing system, the report includes an in …