Documents et rapports

Ukraine-Serving People Improving Health Project (Loan 84750) Audited Financial Statements (year ended 31Dec19) (anglais)

Health and Distributional Effects Taxing Sugar-Sweetened Beverages : the case of Kazakhstan (anglais)

Consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) has been linked to a range of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), including diabetes, obesity, cardiovascular disease, and over 12 types of cancer (Singh, et...

COVID-19 Mortality in Rich and Poor Countries : A Tale of Two Pandemics ? (anglais)

COVID-19 can be described as a heat-seeking missile speeding toward the most vulnerable in society. That metaphor applies not just to the vulnerable in the rich world; the vulnerable in the rest of the...

Combating Noncommunicable Diseases in Kenya : An Investment Case (anglais)

Noncommunicable diseases such as cancer, diabetes, chronic lung diseases, and heart diseases are the leading cause of death and disability. In Kenya, the growing prevalence of these diseases is a major...

Support for Sugary Drinks Taxes : Health and Distributional Impacts of a Tax on Sugar-Sweetened Beverages in Kazakhstan (anglais)

The promotion of healthy diets is at the center of many strategies to prevent and control noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) worldwide. Sugar-sweetened beverages (SSB) are the target of many of these strategies...

Report Loan 8475_UA_V3 18 Eng (anglais)

Support for Sugary Drinks Taxes : Health and Distributional Impacts of a Tax on Sugar-Sweetened Beverages in Kazakhstan (russe)

The promotion of healthy diets is at the center of many strategies to prevent and control noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) worldwide. Sugar-sweetened beverages (SSB) are the target of many of these strategies...

Romania - Regional hospital analysis study : regional referral networks (anglais)

Romania lags behind other European Union (EU) countries in many health outcomes. The government of Romania plans to build three new regional hospitals in the North-West (NW), North-East (NE), and South-West...

Romania - Regional hospital analysis study : regional referral networks (Roumain)

Romania lags behind other European Union (EU) countries in many health outcomes. The government of Romania plans to build three new regional hospitals in the North-West (NW), North-East (NE), and South-West...

Long-run impacts of increasing tobacco taxes : evidence from South Africa (anglais)

Tobacco taxes are considered an effective policy tool to reduce tobacco consumption and produce long-run benefits that outweigh the costs associated with a price increase. Through this policy, some of...

Long-run Impacts of Increasing Tobacco Taxes : Evidence from South Africa (anglais)

Tobacco taxes are considered an effective policy tool to reduce tobacco consumption and produce long-run benefits that outweigh the costs associated with a price increase. Through this policy, some of...

Long-run impacts of increasing tobacco taxes : evidence from South Africa (anglais)

Tobacco taxes are often considered regressive because the share of household budgets allocated to tobacco products is larger among low-income households than among high-income households. This paper shows...

Tobacco price elasticity and tax progressivity in Moldova (anglais)

Tobacco-use–related diseases are the main cause of mortality in Moldova, where tobacco consumption is widely spread, especially among men. In addition to health concerns, tobacco consumption has economic...

Samoa National NCD cost analysis study (anglais)

At the request of Samoa’s Ministries of Health and Finance, and the World Bank, we examined the costs of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in Samoa’s health services. Samoa faces both a heavy burden of...

Cardiovascular, respiratory, and related disorders : disease control priorities - volume 5 (Vol. 5 of 5) (anglais)

Cardiovascular, respiratory, and related disorders (CVRDs) and conditions are responsible for a significant portion of the world’s health burden. In 2012, 52 percent of global adult deaths were caused...

Mental health in transition : assessment and guidance for strengthening integration of mental health into primary health care and community-based service platforms in Ukraine (anglais)

Ukraine is undergoing important reforms in the health system, and there is an increasing interest among national as well as international actors in improving mental health services. The aim of this assessment...

The cost of air pollution : strengthening the economic case for action (Vol. 1 of 2) (anglais)

The Cost of Air Pollution: Strengthening the economic case for action, a joint study of the World Bank and the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), seeks to estimate the costs of premature...

On minimizing the risk of bias in randomized controlled trials in economics (anglais)

Estimation of empirical relationships is prone to bias. Economists have carefully studied sources of bias in structural and quasi-experimental approaches, but the randomized control trial (RCT) has only...

Argentina - Protecting Vulnerable People Against Non-communicable Diseases Project (espagnol)

The development objective of the Protecting Vulnerable People Against Non-communicable Diseases (NCD) Project for Argentina is to contribute to: (i) improving the readiness of public health facilities...

Tackling NCDIs in Cambodia : an opportunity for inter - and intra-sectoral synergies (anglais)

Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are a set of chronic diseases, including cardiovascular disease, cancer, chronic respiratory disease, and diabetes that are on the rise in Cambodia. Meanwhile, injuries...