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 …

This report reviews performance of Uganda's health sector and assesses options for increasing total health spending and … improving efficiency of health spending to improve health, nutrition, and population outcomes. Although Uganda's health outcomes … are improving, the country is unlikely to achieve its national targets for health as well as the health related Millennium …

widespread but with significant urban-rural differences (52 percent versus 74 percent). Health, nutrition, and the fight against …-2012. The National Health Sector and Social Protection Development Plan 2007-2011 was developed to strengthen the health system … communicable illnesses. The health sector has benefited from increasing investment over the last years, and a number of studies and …

The health workforce plays a key role in increasing access to health services for the poor in developing countries …. Recent evidence has demonstrated an important link between staffing levels and both service delivery and health outcomes … in Sub-Saharan Africa, are often well below those required to deliver essential health services. This study focuses on …

generation of policy makers. Good health improves the capacity to learn and work, which dramatically improves income and welfare …

-10. During the entire period, the rural health Analytic and Advisory Activities (AAA) team analyzed the sector and debated reform … happened in China's rural health system and why, and to present a global perspective on the options for further strengthening … the sector. China is well on its way to achieving a modern, equitable, and well-functioning rural health sector, but this …

/Kenya requested that the Private Sector Partnerships-One project (PSP One) conduct an assessment of the private health sector in Kenya …. The scope of work involved assessing the role of the private sector in the overall health system, considering the … equity, access, and efficiency in the health system. The development of the scope of work also coincided with the start up of …

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 …