Sierra Leone is among the most vulnerable countries in the world to the adverse effects of climate change such as extreme heat, droughts, wildfires, and floods. High population densities and inadequate...
The Costa Rican Social Security Fund (CCSS) has taken its first steps towards the introduction of strategic purchasing of healthcare services with a pilot that was introduced for the first time as part...
The development objective of Health Emergency Preparedness Response and Resilience Program Using the Multiphase Programmatic Approach Project for Malawi is to strengthen health system resilience and multisectoral...
This review was conducted using secondary data combined with key informant interviews aiming to (1) understand the current state of telemedicine services in Viet Nam, their business models and challenges;...
Multimorbidity is a growing and increasingly visible global phenomenon due to population aging, for the physiological and emotional effects it causes, the high costs that its care generates for health...
El cambio climático ha sido calificado como la amenaza más importante a la salud humana en el siglo XXI. Se estima que si el El aumento de la temperatura y su impacto en el resto de variables climáticas continúa...
The most equitable, efficient and effective way to finance Universal Health Coverage (UHC) and other health system objectives is by using public, compulsory, and prepaid domestic funding. As a country’s...
The Global financing facility (GFF) for women, children and adolescents’ health and nutrition was launched in July 2015 with the objective of reducing maternal, newborn and child mortality and improving...
The Europe and Central Asia (ECA) region is home to aging populations with some of the world’s highest noncommunicable disease (NCD) burdens, and inertia toward adapting health systems is costing lives...
The government of Azerbaijan has been implementing a series of health reforms since 2016 to improve the accessibility, affordability, and quality of care in the country. As a part of the health reforms...
This deliverable aims to map and assess the current provider payment methods (PPM) used in Azerbaijan's healthcare system, provide preliminary recommendations for strengthening the PPM, and support ongoing...
There is still a lack of health workers in the Republic of Congo (RoC) to achieve Universal Health Coverage (UHC) by 2030. There is a significant variation in the proportion of staff on Payroll versus...
The government of Azerbaijan, in its 2016 approved strategic roadmap for development of telecommunications and information technologies in Azerbaijan Republic and Azerbaijan 2030 Vision, has prioritized...
Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) is an extreme form of violence against women and girls (VAWG), of sexual assault, a human rights violation, and a development impediment that affects more than 200 million...
Laboratory networks are one of the fundamental tools of public health alongside disease surveillance and epidemiological investigation. This knowledge product provides an overview of the capacities needed...
Marked “Official Use Only”, the memorandum was submitted by President McNamara for consideration by the Board as a review of the Bank’s experience gained since the 1974 Health Sector Policy and the recommended...
The paper is an unnumbered, draft portion of the proposed policy memorandum, R79-175 Bank Lending for Health described above, that assesses the Bank’s experience since the 1974 Health Sector Policy Paper...