This report looks at resilience through national health system lenses and provides lessons to strengthen health systems for future shocks. The findings are based on case studies from five countries in...
The outbreak of the coronavirus disease Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has delivered an enormous shock to the global economy, exacting a large human toll, shutting down major economic sectors, and deeply...
There are many definitions of long-term care (LTC) in the literature on the subject. That said, LTC could be uniformly defined as a range of services required by persons with a reduced degree of functional...
Though Belarus has achieved improvements in key health outcomes, it faces a growing burden of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs). Demographic processes in the Republic of Belarus are accompanied by a high...
Poland is aging. In another three decades, more than half of the country's population will be over50.7 years old, 10.4 years more than the current median age of 40.3 years. The share ofindividuals 65 years...
Poland is aging. In another three decades, more than half of the country's population will be over50.7 years old, 10.4 years more than the current median age of 40.3 years. The share ofindividuals 65 years...
This report provides an overview of the third phase of the Poland catching-up regions initiative (PL CuR3). It presents components that have been delivered over the period July 2018 to June 2019 in collaboration...
In order to address the large and growing non-communicable disease (NCD) burden, Bangladesh’s public health system needs to change and innovate. It needs to transition from a system designed for infectious...
Despite significant efforts to reduce polluting air emissions, during and after the economic transition in the 1990s, Poland remains home to many of the most polluted cities in the European Union (EU)...
This Second Programmatic Public Finance Review (PFR-2) supports Ukraine in implementing its ongoing ambitious structural reform agenda to identify fiscal savings and to increase the effectiveness of public...
Poland is facing an enormous demographic change as the population age at unprecedented pace. Life expectancy is steadily increasing while birth rates for years have remained below simple replacement rate...