This study aims mainly at understanding the performance of primary health care (PHC) providers in four Nigerian states … health care facilities, health care personnel, and households in their vicinity. These surveys were implemented in four … states: Bauchi, Cross River, Kaduna, and Lagos. This study represents the second phase of the Nigeria Health, Nutrition, and …

Indonesia has made improving the access to health workers, especially in rural areas, and improving the quality of … health provider's key priority areas of its next five-year development plan. Significant steps and policy changes were taken … to improve the distribution of the health workforce, in particular the contracted doctors program and later the …

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 …

A number of development partners, including the World Bank, have been actively supporting the health sector in … AC) and played key roles in supporting the government in reshaping the country's health sector. This support continues … facing in meeting human resource needs, expanding the coverage of the basic package of health services (BPHS), and increasing …

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 …

This study reviews: (1) how levels of donor financing of the health sector in Somalia varied over the decade 2000 …-09, (2) which health interventions were prioritized by donors, and (3) how evenly health sector aid was distributed to the … different zones of Somalia. The overall aim of the study was to create evidence for donors, implementers, and health specialists …

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 …