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 …

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 …

Thailand has succeeded in expanding coverage of publicly-funded and publicly-managed health insurance schemes …, following the introduction of universal health coverage policy in 2001. While Thailand's achievement of universal health … coverage (UC) is well noted, recent researches and studies have indicated that there are still gaps in health utilization and …