Ambulatory Care Sensitive Conditions (ACSCs)—conditions for which hospitalization could be prevented or reduced with timely access to effective preventive and early disease management services in primary...
Despite a rebound in economic growth following the pandemic, new geopolitical developments and macroeconomic shocks-inflation and monetary responses to inflation, Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and the...
This publication provides a second technical update that reflects deteriorating global economic conditions following the Russian Federation’s invasion of Ukraine combined with increasing inflation, and...
Anemia remains one of the most widespread nutritional deficiencies in the world. Moreover, although anemia prevalence is highest in South Asia and Africa, particularly West Africa, it is not confined to...
The most equitable, efficient and effective way to finance Universal Health Coverage (UHC) and other health system objectives is by using public, compulsory, and prepaid domestic funding. As a country’s...
Armenia has made significant gains in population health, but faces challenges in ensuring health care access, due to financial barriers. As mortality caused by infectious diseases has fallen over the past...
This note provides guidance on how to carry out a 'drill-down' examination of domestic resource mobilization (DRM) for increased health sector fiscal space to ensure progress towards universal health coverage...
Despite progress on population health outcomes in recent decades, malnutrition remains a policy concern in Bhutan, especially in rural areas and in the eastern region of the country. Addressing malnutrition...
Overall nutrition-specific expenditure in Bhutan, India, Nepal, and Sri Lanka remains low, although substantial variation exists among these countries. Given the high rates of malnutrition in these countries...
Volume 2 updates the analyses presented in the original discussion paper, Volume 1, "From Double Shock to Double Recovery - Implications and Options for Health Financing in the Time of COVID-19," published...
This publication updates the analyses presented in the original discussion paper “From Double Shock to Double Recovery-Implications and Options for Health Financing in the Time of COVID-19,” published...
The South Asia Human Capital Plan acknowledges the great strides the region has made in investing in human capital but highlights the deficits that remain. Given current quality, coverage, and effectiveness...
Volume 2 updates the analyses presented in the original discussion paper, Volume 1, "From Double Shock to Double Recovery - Implications and Options for Health Financing in the Time of COVID-19," published...
Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19’s) impact has gone far beyond its direct effect on morbidity and mortality. In addition to adversely impacting non-COVID health care utilization, the pandemic has resulted in...
As part of the domestic resource mobilization (DRM) collaborative of the Joint Learning Network (JLN), a global review of health’s share of public spending is being conducted, with a follow-up deeper dive...
This study summarizes estimates and lessons learned from application of the scaling up nutrition (SUN) methodology to assess public financing for nutrition in Bhutan. Using Bhutan’s classification of nutrition...
Progressive realization of universal health coverage (UHC) is one of the important aspects of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals. The Government of India is fully committed to attaining...
As countries undergo their health financing transitions, moving away from external and out-of-pocket (OOP) financing toward domestically sourced public financing, the issue of fiscal space – that is, of...
This paper draws lessons from anti-fraud experiences in social health insurance programs of six selected countries across the income spectrum: Indonesia, the Philippines, Republic of Korea, Croatia, Turkey...