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Sri Lanka scales up preventive health care, with impressive …

(6 days ago) WEBIt is forward thinking. Sri Lanka has an impressive track record of achieving good health care at a low cost, and this success lies in part in the health system’s ability to adapt to change . It was this approach that led to the elimination of communicable diseases like malaria and to the establishment of a world-renowned maternal and child

https://blogs.worldbank.org/en/voices/sri-lanka-scales-preventive-health-care-impressive-results

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Sri Lanka - World Health Organization (WHO)

(2 days ago) WEBThe Programme Budget 2020-2021 broke all-time records in terms of programme budget funding and implementation. US$ 2 billion (34%) more funded than in 2018–2019 and US$ 1.3 billion (25%) more implemented. Top 20 contributors provided 71% of …

https://www.who.int/about/accountability/results/who-results-report-2020-2021/2021/sri-lanka

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Sri Lanka at 75: safeguarding its health achievements

(3 days ago) WEBThis year, Sri Lanka marks 75 years of independence from the British as well as the 200th anniversary of the arrival of the Malaiyaha Tamil community, brought from South India to work on colonial plantations. Much is owed to this community, whose labour powered the country's tea industry, generating substantial revenue to Sri Lanka's …

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(23)02393-0/fulltext

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Sri Lanka Health System Review - World Health …

(8 days ago) WEBSri Lanka Health System Review Health Systems in Transition Health Sy Vol. 10 No. 1 2021 s t ems in T r ansition Vol. 10 No. 1 2021 Sri Lanka Health System Review The Asia Pacific Observatory on Health Systems and Policies (the APO) is a collaborative partnership of interested governments, international agencies, foundations, and …

https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/342323/9789290228530-eng.pdf?sequence=1

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Good Health and Well-being - The United Nations in Sri …

(3 days ago) WEB3.4 By 2030, reduce by one third premature mortality from non-communicable diseases through prevention and treatment and promote mental health and well-being. 3.5 Strengthen the prevention and treatment of substance abuse, including narcotic drug abuse and harmful use of alcohol. 3.6 By 2020, halve the number of global deaths and injuries …

https://srilanka.un.org/en/sdgs/3

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Sri Lanka health system review - World Health Organization

(5 days ago) WEBThe Sri Lanka HiT review presents a comprehensive overview of the different aspects of the country’s health system, and the background and context within which the health system is situated. The review also presents information on reforms to address emerging health needs such as the growing challenge of noncommunicable diseases (‎NCDs

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Elevating Sri Lanka’s Public Health to the Next Level

(3 days ago) WEBAs a lower middle-income country, Sri Lanka has achieved remarkable progress in maternal and child health, and addressing communicable disease. The country has a maternal mortality rate of …

https://www.worldbank.org/en/results/2018/09/14/elevating-sri-lankas-public-health-next-level

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Strengthening PHC in Sri Lanka: Engaging people to build …

(6 days ago) WEBSri Lanka’s primary health care system pre-dates Alma Ata and has been the foundation of the country’s remarkable health achievements, well above its income group. With a shift underway in both demographic and epidemiological profiles, Sri Lanka’s focus now is reforming PHC to address aging and premature deaths due to non …

https://www.who.int/news-room/feature-stories/detail/strengthening-primary-health-care-sri-lanka

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Sri Lanka discusses the way forward to achieve SDG Goal …

(4 days ago) WEB22 June 2019, Hikkaduwa, Sri Lanka. A stakeholder consultation was held recently to discuss Sri Lanka’s efforts at developing the National Action Plan for Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 3: Ensure healthy lives …

https://www.who.int/srilanka/news/detail/21-06-2019-sri-lanka-discusses-the-way-forward-to-achieve-sdg-goal-3-ensure-healthy-lives-and-promote-well--being-for-all-at-all-ages

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HEALTH CARE IN SRI LANKA - The World Bank

(5 days ago) WEBFor free copies of papers in this series please contact the individual authors whose name appears on the paper. Enquiries about the series and submissions should be made directly to the Editor Martin Lutalo ([email protected]) or HNP Advisory Ser-vice ([email protected], tel 202 473-2256, fax 202 522-3234).

https://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/423511468307190661/pdf/899540WP0Box380th0Care0in0Sri0Lanka.pdf

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Paradox of healthcare in Sri Lanka - World Health Organization

(3 days ago) WEBimprovements in health indicators, extending advantages of good health-care to poor and marginalised populations as well as the progress in achieving the MDGs, have been outstanding in Sri Lanka. Furthermore, the burden on Sri Lanka’s health system is shifting from CDs to non-communicable diseases (NCDs). There is a rise in …

https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/255195/ParadoxofhealthcareinSri%20Lanka.pdf?sequence=1

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Uncertainty over the future of Sri Lankan health care

(3 days ago) WEBAn economic crisis is hampering the provision of care for many Sri Lankans. Talha Burki reports. Speaking on condition of anonymity, a surgeon from northern Sri Lanka outlined the devastating effects that the country's economic crisis is having on health care. “At our [public] hospital, we do not have anaesthetic drugs”, he began.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(22)01838-4/fulltext

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Primary Health Care Reforms in Sri Lanka: Aiming at Preserving

(5 days ago) WEBSri Lanka’s model of primary health care, available free through a government health system with island wide availability, forms a sound basis for providing universal health coverage. However, this system is increasingly under pressure notably from the high burden of non-communicable diseases (NCDs), increasing elderly care needs and the growing …

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK316262/

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Positive Outlier: Sri Lanka’s Health Outcomes over Time

(4 days ago) WEBAbstract: This case describes the development and structure of Sri Lanka’s health system, which has yielded health outcomes far superior to any of its South Asian neighbors. The case highlights factors supporting the health outcomes, including the availability of free health services to all citizens, government investment in the health

https://www.globalhealthdelivery.org/publications/positive-outlier-sri-lanka%E2%80%99s-health-outcomes-over-time-0

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SRI LANKA ESSENTIAL HEALTH SERVICES PACKAGE 2019

(6 days ago) WEBSri Lanka is well known for achieving good health gains at a low cost as evidenced by our strong public health indicators, which are comparable to countries spending Sri Lanka The World Health Organization works closely with the Government of Sri Lanka for Primary Health Care (PHC) strengthening as a means towards achieving the

https://previousmoh.health.gov.lk/moh_final/english/public/elfinder/files/publications/2019/SLESP-2019.pdf

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Sri Lanka and the possibilities of achieving universal health …

(1 days ago) WEBSri Lanka has been lauded for providing good health coverage at a low cost despite having a modest per capita income. This article identifies the unique historical factors that enabled Sri Lanka to achieve near universal coverage, but it also discusses how this achievement is now being undermined by inadequate government investment in health services, the …

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30025489/

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SRI LANKA 2021 - UNICEF

(2 days ago) WEBSri Lanka’s total expend-iture on healthcare (both public and private) is 3.8% of GDP. This is lower than the lower-middle-income countries’ average health expenditure of 4.1% but higher than South Asian countries’ average health expenditure of 3.5%. Sri Lanka’s public health expenditure amounts to 1.5% of GDP, which is similar

https://www.unicef.org/srilanka/media/2716/file/BUDGET%20BRIEF:%20HEALTH%20SECTOR%202021.pdf

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Health, Wellbeing and its Promotion The Sri Lankan Scientist

(7 days ago) WEBToday, the word “health” is used in day to day life to represent a good physical form, an absence of illness, or injury. Most of us grasp this intuitive idea with a fixed image of merely absence of a physical or mental disease or disorder. Health and physical education – Grade 06, Education publications department, Sri Lanka; 2019: 01

https://scientist.lk/2022/08/01/health-wellbeing-and-its-promotion/

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National Strategic Plan on Child Health in Sri Lanka 2018-2025

(6 days ago) WEBThese factors highlight a potential strategic mismatch of the child health system. In order to address these concerns, Family Health Bureau (FHB) of the Ministry of Health, Sri Lanka decided to develop the first National Strategic Plan on Child Health (NSPCH) Sri Lanka: 2018-2025. The NSPCH focuses on children from infancy to 15 years of age.

https://platform.who.int/docs/default-source/mca-documents/policy-documents/plan-strategy/LKA-CH-14-01-PLAN-STRATEGY-2018-eng-Child-Strategic-Plan---Final-version.pdf

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Sri Lanka Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation

(2 days ago) WEBSri Lanka. Print this page Select language. Language Selector. Loading Subscribe to our newsletter Email Address. Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation Hans Rosling Center for Population Health. 3980 15th Ave NE, Seattle WA 98195 UW Campus Box #351615. Phone: +1 (206) 897-2800 Fax: +1 (206) 897-2899. Twitter LinkedIn YouTube Facebook

https://www.healthdata.org/research-analysis/health-by-location/profiles/sri-lanka

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The devastating health consequences of Sri Lanka’s economic …

(1 days ago) WEBSri Lanka’s sudden economic collapse has broken its healthcare system. Sonia Sarkar reports on how the country might claw back years of progress, lost in months On 22 May, a 2 day old infant in Haldummulla, Sri Lanka, started to experience rapidly falling glucose levels. Her parents wanted to rush her to a nearby hospital but didn’t …

https://www.bmj.com/content/377/bmj.o1543

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