identifies measures to boost fiscal revenues and improve the efficiency of public spending with emphasis on health and education … 2017. Chapters four and five reviews public spending in the health and education sectors with emphasis on efficiency … improve efficiency and outcomes. In education, reducing repetition rates and addressing human resources issues are key to …

This report assesses Indonesia's health financing system. As an intrinsic and necessary element of universal health … coverage (UHC), health financing is not only about assessing the sufficiency of resources, but also about how equitably and …

This policy note provides an overview of government health financing in the Lao People's Democratic Republic (PDR …), with an added focus on health center financing. The note summarizes overall trends in health outcomes and government health … financing over 2000-2014 and analyzes trends in planned and realized government budgetary health spending data covering fiscal …

-attributable diseases, catastrophic health expenditures, and extreme poverty averted. The additional tax burden is, however, borne mostly by … the top income group in the 62 percent price increase scenario. Thus, tobacco taxes are an effective way to improve health … and reduce poverty in Vietnam …

the Kyrgyz Republic based on its health outcomes and health expenditure. It is then analyzed to understand whether the … derives the base fiscal space scenario: what the health sector can hope for given macroeconomic projections, expectations of … external funding, and options to reprioritize health in the budget. These options do not require any specific action short of …

surface, in place of a previous warning which covered 10 percent of the front surface and stated: 'Ministry of Health warns …: smoking is bad for your health.' Since October 4, 2012, large (50 percent of the pack surface area), graphic health … predict the health and related cost impacts that may stem from the implementation of a tobacco excise tax increase in Ukraine …

: Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) pose a major health burden to the population and governments of the GCC. NCDs are also a … growing concern from an economic perspective. To mitigate the health and economic burden of NCDs, the region needs to scale up … effectively mobilize, incentivize, and hold accountable the many non-health sectors in the implementation and monitoring of cost …

environmental risk to health and the cause of morbidity and mortality from diseases such as ischemic heart disease, lung cancer …-income countries. This report provides an estimate of the global, regional, and national costs of health damage-that is, premature … of global gross domestic product in the same year. Global health crises further highlight the need for continued action …

continued to rise. Air pollution's significant health, social, and economic effects compel the World Bank to support client … countries in addressing air pollution as a core development challenge. This publication estimates that the global cost of health … pollution's health damages, this publication aims to support policy makers and decision-makers in client countries in …