This watching brief reports on trends in centrally-directed health spending through January 1, 2001 when Indonesia moved to more decentralized funds channeling, decision making, and allocation arrangements...
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...
Complications of pregnancy and childbirth are the leading cause of death and disability among women of reproductive age in Indonesia. Yet much of this loss and suffering is preventable. The most effective...
Indonesia's economic crisis is expected to affect basic education outcomes in a number of interrelated ways, including effects on students' enrollment and their families' ability to pay foir school; on...
This analysis points to the following conclusions concerning the substantial decline of child malnutrition in Indonesia: 1) Improvements in nutritional status continue to be observed in Indonesia through...