The Lao People's Democratic Republic has a high execution rate for its overall health budget, ranging from 89 to 104 percent from 2015 to 2019. Aggregated execution rates are generally high across the...
In Armenia, 4 percent of households have a family member who is currently abroad, while 23 percent have someone who migrated in the past and has since returned. Migration is most common in the Lori and...
The objective of the Second Additional Financing (AF2) to the Maternal and Child Health Investment Program is to scale up the provision and improve the quality of essential health care services, with a...
The objective of the Additional Financing of the Health Sector Transformation Project for South Sudan is to expand access to a basic package of health and nutrition services, improve health sector stewardship...
La République du Niger est un des pays les plus pauvres du Sahel. Aussi, elle fait face à des défis démographiques et socio-économiques importants qui limitent sa capacité à améliorer son système de santé...
Investing in people through nutrition, health care, quality education, jobs and skills helps develop human capital and is key to ending poverty and creating more inclusive and healthier societies. Nepal’s...
Over the last two decades, Government of Nepal (GoN) has demonstrated significant improvement in key nutrition outcomes, particularly undernutrition among children under 5 years of age. Despite this progress...
During the core pandemic response phase, country health systems surged to respond to the rising COVID-19 case burden by shifting and reorganizing staff and services, ensuring availability of necessary...
The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, caused by the novel Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), first emerged in Wuhan, China in December 2019 and quickly became a global...
The overall purpose of this study was to understand the effectiveness of efforts to curtail the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and associated public health measures on the supply and utilization of non-COVID...
The COVID-19 pandemic emerged in December 2019 and swiftly became a global crisis, heavily impacting Indonesia. The country reported its first COVID-19 case within eight weeks of the outbreak and experienced...
This How-To Note is designed to assist teams preparing World Bank Public Finance Reviews, as well as MTI country economists and staff in other GPs such as POV, GOV and HNP. While it is primarily intended...
In late 2022, Ho Chi Minh City Department of Health implemented a pilot project to foster an AI-empowered and collaborative care model toward achieving universal access to radiograph services among the...
The World Bank’s Mind, Behavior and Development (eMBeD) unit and Health, Nutrition, and Population team joined forces with WHO to leverage behavioral science to increase effectiveness and efficiency, and...
Human Resources for Mental Health Service Delivery in Viet Nam provides an overview of the country’s current state of and challenges to mental health service delivery. The framework of the report is composed...
Hazardous air pollution poses significant health and economic challenges for Nepal. Air pollution raises public health concerns in Nepal, particularly in the country’s two geographic hotspots: the Kathmandu...
The universal health coverage agenda in Togo will increasingly rely on government funding, which makes the quality of the PFM system crucial to achieve gains of the wider health sector agenda. Available...