Дар бештари мамлакатҳо хароҷот аз ҳисоби беморон (ХБ) мисли пеш ҳиссаи назарраси хароҷоти ҷории онҳоро барои хизматрасониҳои тиббӣ ташкил медиҳанд ва қисми зиёди аҳолии ҷаҳонро дучори мушкилиҳои молиявӣ...
Выплаты из бюджета домохозяйств (прямые платежи, осуществляемые домохозяйствами) за услуги здравоохранения продолжают составлять значительную долю текущих расходов на здравоохранение во многих странах...
A number the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in September 2015 have targets that relate to health. However, one goal – SDG3- focuses specifically...
This report analyses equity and financial protection in the health sector of Timor-Leste. In particular, it examines inequalities in health outcomes, health behavior and health care utilization; benefit...
The last few years have seen a growing commitment worldwide to universal health coverage (UHC). Yet there is a lack of clarity on how to measure progress towards UHC. This paper proposes a ‘mashup’ index...
Providing protection against the financial risk of high out-of-pocket health spending is one of the main goals of the Philippines’ health strategy. Yet, as this paper shows using eight household surveys...
Relative to other comparable income and health spending countries, Bulgaria has more physicians per capita. Bulgaria’s physician to population ratio increased from 2.5 in 1980 to 3.8 physicians per 1000...
This report analyses equity and financial protection in the health sector of Timor-Leste. It is part of a series of short country-specific volumes that provide a picture of equity and financial protection...
This issue of the human development quarterly update includes the following topics of interest: latest research findings; new articles and books; in the news; and on the blogs; references; and previous...
A movement towards universal health coverage (UHC) - ensuring that everyone who needs health services is able to get them, without undue financial hardship – has been growing across the globe (1). This...
Up to now catastrophic and impoverishing payments have been seen as two alternative approaches to measuring financial protection in health. Building on the previous literature, the authors propose a unified...
This fact sheet was created to provide quick information about a given country's fiscal health trends over time and benchmark the country against its income group or regional peers. This fact sheet use...
Ratings for the Mekong Health Support Project for Vietnam were as follows: overall outcome was satisfactory, the risk to development outcome was moderate, and both the Bank and the Borrower performance...
Demand side financing (DSF) is a widely employed strategy to enhance utilization of healthcare. The impact of DSF on health care seeking in general and that of maternal care in particular is already known...