effectiveness, cost, and cost-effectiveness of priority health interventions. The volume presents data on the surgical burden of … disease, disability, congenital anomalies, and trauma, along with health impact and economic analyses of procedures, platforms ….5 million deaths a year and rank among the most cost effective of all health interventions. Existing health care delivery …

programs in Ghana. Both broad-based programs (such as spending for education and health, and subsidies for food, oil … poverty and food security, as well as ways to implement proxy means-testing. The purpose of this introductory chapter is to …

picture of the food security situation. Rather, a suite of indicators is necessary to describe food insecurity in all its … dimensions. The demand for evidence-based policies, which brings together providers such as statistical offices and users of food … security indicators including policy makers and researchers, has also been increasing. The stand-alone software, ADePT-Food …

This report examines the health and economic impact of noncommunicable diseases (NCD) in Latin America and the … policy decisions involving multi-sectoral interventions to prevent health risk factors are taken, which stakeholders directly …

As the world recently turned its attention to the struggle of expanding health insurance coverage for 40 million people … designed and coupled with public subsidies, health insurance can contribute to the well-being of poor and middle …-class households, not just the rich. And it can contribute to development goals such as improved access to health care, better …

This report is about how to improve health system outcomes in countries in the Europe and Central Asia (ECA) region …. Long-term historical trends indicate substantial room for improvement, especially when ECA's health outcomes are compared … ECA have been falling behind. This report, which explores the development challenge facing health sectors in ECA …

(including food subsidies and cash transfers) on poverty alleviation in the 1990s. Poverty declined between 1992 and 1997 because …