Documents et rapports

Using Social Media Surveys and Interventions to Address Vaccine Hesitancy in Saudi Arabia (anglais)

Countering COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy has been a challenge in Saudi Arabia, one of the countries affected most by the pandemic in the Eastern Mediterranean Region. Aims: To identify information needs...

Gulf Economic Update - The Health and Economic Burden of Non-Communicable Diseases in the GCC (anglais)

The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) economies performed strongly in 2022. Amidst a year of economic uncertainty marked by inflation, geopolitical crises, and supply chain insecurity, the GCC region registered...

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s Health System Responsiveness: Evidence from a Nationally Representative Survey (anglais)

This paper analyses the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s healthcare system responsiveness. Responsiveness is one of the widely used metrics in assessing the performance of healthcare systems. We analyzed data...

Overweight and Obesity in Saudi Arabia : Consequences and Solutions (anglais)

Overweight and obesity are both a disease and a biological risk factor linked to noncommunicable diseases. More than half of the adult population in Saudi Arabia is overweight, and one out of five is considered...

Noncommunicable Diseases in Saudi Arabia : Toward Effective Interventions for Prevention (anglais)

Saudi Arabia is at an early stage of its demographic transition to an older population, and so it has an opportunity to prepare early for a rising noncommunicable disease (NCD) epidemic. NCDs, such as...

COVID-19 and Mental Health in Vulnerable Populations : A Narrative Review (anglais)

This paper examines the global implications of COVID-19 on mental health, with a focus on four particularly vulnerable populations: (1) unemployed adults; (2) youth; (3) older-age populations; and (4)...

Strengthening the Pharmaceutical System in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia : Towards a Medicine Policy to Support Vision 2030 (anglais)

This document presents the major issues that were discussed in the process of working towards the development of a new medicines policy in Saudi Arabia, examining current national practice in light of...

A Labor Market Assessment of Nurses and Physicians in Saudi Arabia : Addressing Future Imbalances between Need, Supply, and Demand (anglais)

Strengthening the health workforce in Saudi Arabia is central to ongoing reform efforts in the country and to the changing business priorities in the health sector and beyond. Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030...

Fostering Human Capital in the Gulf Cooperation Council Countries (anglais)

The formation of human capital--the knowledge, skills, and health that people accumulate over their lifetimes, is critical for the six Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries. Human capital contributes...

Building the Foundations for Economic Sustainability : Human Capital and Growth in the GCC (Vol. 1 of 2) (anglais)

The economies of the GCC recovered in 2018 despite signs of weakness in the global economic outlook, reinforcing the perception that GCC economies' fortunes are still inextricably tied to oil. Global growth...

Strengthening Post-Ebola Health Systems : From Response to Resilience in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone (anglais)

Moving Beyond Zero addresses the challenge of enabling the development of viable, resilient, and fiscally sustainable health system in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. Initiated while Ebola was still...

Health labor market analyses in low- and middle-income countries : an evidence-based approach (anglais)

The health workforce has received major policy attention over the past decade,driven in part by the need to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and more recently the Sustainable Development...

Africa - Africa - Technical Capacity for Nutrition : P144629 - Implementation Status Results Report : Sequence 02 (anglais)

Tanzania - Rural Food Fortification Project in Tanzania : P123786 - Implementation Status Results Report : Sequence 05 (anglais)

The systematic assessment of health worker performance : a framework for analysis and its application in Tanzania (anglais)

This paper introduces a simple framework for understanding the dimensions and determinants of health worker performance based on the idea that there can be three different gaps affecting performance: a...

Information and communication technologies for health systems strengthening : opportunities, criteria for success, and innovation for Africa and beyond (anglais)

Information and communication technologies (ICT) for health or eHealth solutions hold great potential for generating systemic efficiencies by strengthening five critical pillars of a health system: human...

Towards interventions in human resources for health in Ghana : evidence for health workforce planning and result. : Towards interventions in human resources for health in Ghana : evidence for health workforce planning and result (anglais)

This book towards interventions in human resources for health in Ghana is a collaborative effort between the government of Ghana and the World Bank, was developed to assist the ministry of health to obtain...

Evaluating the impact of results-based financing on health worker performance : theory, tools and variables to inform an impact evaluation (anglais)

The health workforce in Ethiopia : addressing the remaining challenges (anglais)

Health indicators in Ethiopia, particularly on child health and malaria, have improved significantly in recent years, with the next challenge now focused on improving maternal health indicators. Improvements...

Creating incentives to work in Ghana : results from a qualitative health worker study (anglais)

The Ministry of Health, Ghana, is engaged in developing new Human Resources for Health (HRH) Strategy (2001-15); one that tries to draw on some of the evidence pertaining to the dynamics of the health...