This brief summarizes about did the health card program ensure access to medical care for the poor during Indonesia's economic crisis for the 1998 period. The Indonesian social safety net health card program...
This issue includes the following: growth and risk: methodology and micro evidence; by Chris Elbers, Jan Willem Gunning, and Bill Kinsey. Dollars, debt, and international financial institutions: dedollarizing...
The Indonesian social safety net health card program was implemented in response to the economic crisis that hit Indonesia in 1997, to preserve access to health care services for the poor. Health cards...
This policy concept paper is intended to assist the center in navigating the tension between opportunities and challenges as activities are adapted to the decentralized national nutrition policy, and to...
The East Asia and Pacific region of the World Bank has an estimated 2.3 million adults and children living with HIV/AIDS, out of the global total of 42 million. In such a large and diverse area, the HIV/AIDS...
With almost half the world's population, Asia will determine the future of the global HIV/AIDS pandemic. This paper outlines a strategic direction for the World Bank in its multisectoral response to HIV/AIDS...
The authors investigate the extent to which Indonesia's poor benefit from public and private provisioning of education and health services. Drawing on multiple rounds of SUSENAS household surveys, they...
This paper presents the results of a trend analysis of key health indicators in Indonesia. The analysis is based on data from the National Socioeconomic Survey for Indonesia (SUSENAS) for the years 1995...
The main objective of the health, nutrition, and population (HNP) strategy is to improve the Bank's effectiveness in HNP in the East Asia and the Pacific (EAP) region. To this end, the challenge is the...
Financial crises are often accompanied by a compression of public expenditures. When this affects the health sector, as it usually does, it can affect delivery of basic services and public health interventions...
Mortality of children under age five is an important indicator of the health status of a population. It reflects overall socioeconomic conditions as well as the effectiveness of a health system in providing...