period 2002-07, with a focus on two essential public services, education and health. We believe that the devolution of … changes. The article concludes with detailed recommendations on improving the decentralized delivery of education and health … and marginalized. The Devolution Plan made inroads toward these goals, particularly in education, but their achievement …

in the provision of health and education in developing countries. Many influential surveys have found that the empirical … infant mortality rates. Decentralization also improves preference matching in education, and can do so in health under …

access for men and women to education and land use, to the decision-making process, and to employment. …

provide reproductive health services had to be tackled urgently. Hence the Community Midwifery Education (CME) Program was …In the immediate post conflict period, Afghanistan's health services were in a deplorable and chaotic state. Access and … utilization of reproductive health services and skilled care during pregnancy, childbirth, and the first month after delivery are …

impressive decline going from 142 to 42 deaths per 1,000 births between 1990 and 2012. This Health, Nutrition, and Population …

Laboratories have historically been under supported in developing country health systems resulting in poor quality … funding for broader public health laboratory services has been relatively neglected. In this paper the authors present a … resources for health research and more activity in this area will lead to greater understanding of the problems and provide more …

Beginning in 2003, Turkey initiated a series of reforms under the Health Transformation Program (HTP) that over the … past decade have led to the achievement of universal health coverage (UHC). The progress of Turkey?s health system has few …, if any, parallels in scope and speed. Before the reforms, Turkey?s aggregate health indicators lagged behind those of …

While universal health coverage (UHC) offers a powerful goal for a nation, all countries-irrespective of income are … struggling with achieving or sustaining UHC. France is a high-income country where HC is in effect universal. Health …-related costs are covered by a mix of mandatory social health insurance (SHI) and private complementary schemes, while benefit …

The aim of Health in All Policies (HiAP) is to bring diverse sectors together to find shared solutions; it focuses on … identifying 'win-win' or 'cobenefits' such that policy measures contribute not only to improved health outcomes but also to … outcomes desired by other sectors, such as education, environment, welfare, agriculture, and transportation. HiAP can be …

health sector policy, particularly when they have significant macroeconomic implications. Such issues can also affect equity … state and market in health care financing and provision. It also suggests situations in which macroeconomists should engage … health sector specialists in policy formulation exercises. Finally, it reviews the different health policy issues that …