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Women and Children's Health
WebBecause malnutrition in early life significantly affects the physical and mental development of children, addressing malnutrition is fundamental to the development of Vietnam’s human capital.
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Health and Growth
WebThis book containes a series of “state of the art” essays on topics related to health and growth. The Commission on Growth and Development (CGD)--in preparing its own Growth Report--wished to take stock of the current state of knowledge and understanding of economic growth, and thus commissioned a series of essays on a range of thematic areas.
Health World Development Report 2015: Mind, Society, and …
WebAsserts that understanding that people think automatically, interpret the world based on implicit mental models, and think socially allows policy makers to make major strides in improving health outcomes. Individuals sometimes value information, but at other times it remains insufficient to get people to change behaviors that undermine health. Framing …
Health in Developing Countries: Successes and Challenges
WebExplains why good health constitutes a crucial part of well-being, but that spending on health can be justified on purely economic grounds. Improved health contributes to economic growth in four ways: (1) it reduces production losses caused by worker illness; (2) it permits the use of natural resources that had been totally ornearly inaccessible …
Health, Nutrition, and Population The World Bank Group A to Z …
WebDiscusses the Health, Nutrition, and Population (HNP) Global Practice, which focuses on access to quality, affordable health, nutrition and population services and products in order to end preventable deaths and disability. HNP works with governments, the private sector, and civil society to (1) improve access to quality, affordable health services, medicines, …
Analyzing Markets for Health Workers: Insights from Labor and …
WebAbstract: “This publication is part of the Bank’s multiyear program to enhance its knowledge of HRH policies. The program’s ultimate objective is to strengthen knowledge and capacity to collect evidence, analyze, and evaluate the effectiveness of HRH interventions in the context of a country’s health system strengthening strategy.
Health Economics in Development Health, Nutrition, and …
WebAbstract: Economists and public health specialists do not always understand one another, to the detriment of how health systems function. This collection of papers, spanning over 20 years of thinking and writing, aims to bring these disciplines closer together, through exploration of basic concepts, development of ways to think about such ideas
Goals of Universal Health Coverage Universal Health Coverage for
WebDefines universal health coverage (UHC) as consisting of three interrelated components: (1) the full spectrum of health services according to need; (2) financial protection from direct payment for health services when consumed; and (3) coverage for the entire population. Countries as diverse as Brazil, France, Japan, Thailand, and Turkey have achieved …
Overview Health and Nutrition in Urban Bangladesh: Social
WebExplains that in the wake of remarkable progress on the United Nations Millennium Development Goals related to health and nutrition—increasing child immunization, reducing malnutrition and communicable diseases, and lowering infant and maternal mortality—Bangladesh now seeks to achieve universal health coverage by 2032, which …
Tracking Universal Health Coverage: 2023 Global Monitoring Report
WebThe number of people incurring catastrophic out-of-pocket health spending (more than 10% of their household budget) increased to more than 1 billion people in 2019, or almost 14% of the global population. About 1.3 billion people (almost 17% of the global population) were pushed or further pushed into poverty by out-of-pocket health spending.
Definition, Characteristics, and Types of Health PPPs Public …
WebDevelops a taxonomy of the different types of public-private partnerships (PPPs), describes their key characteristics, and suggests some conditions for successful implementation. While PPPs comprise a distinct subset of public-private engagements (PPEs), they are not the same as privatization; a key feature of a PPP involves the sharing of both risks and …
Healthy China: Deepening Health Reform in China: Building High …
WebAbstract: The report recommends that China maintain the goal and direction of its healthcare reform, and continue the shift from its current hospital-centric model that rewards volume and sales, to one that is centered on primary care, focused on improving the quality of basic health services, and delivers high-quality, cost-effective health services.
Infrastructure Disruptions Affect the Health and Well-Being of
WebAsserts that infrastructure disruptions and lack of reliability affect people as workers and consumers, but they can also impose direct costs on households through a variety of channels: direct impacts, coping costs, and indirect impacts. Each disruption can have real adverse impacts, including the direct short-term consequence of not having access to …
Migration and Health in South Africa:Implications for Development
WebExamines the unequal access to public healthcare experienced by migrant groups and the dangers it poses to public health, and argues that denying migrant populations timely access to appropriate healthcare (including both preventative and curative services) puts the health of the entire population at risk. In a region where communicable disease sare …
Analysis of Human Resources for Health in Malawi
WebThe Malawi health sector strategic plan (HSSP) 2011-2016 set out key strategies and interventions to support the delivery of an essential health package of services. The human resources for health strategic plan included an HRH capacity development plan that focused on training of registered nurse midwifes, nurse midwife technicians, community
Analyzing Health Equity Using Household Survey Data
WebAbstract: This book provides a step-by-step practical guide to the measurement of a variety of aspects of health equity, with worked examples and code for Stata and SPSS. It also provides practical advice on a variety of associated issues such as measuring health and living standards, and the application of regression analysis to health data.
How Adverse Selection Affects the Health Insurance Market
WebAdverse selection can be defined as strategic behavior by the more informed partner in a contract against the interest of the less informed partner (s). In the health insurance field, this manifests itself through healthy people choosing managed care and less healthy people choosing more generous plans. Drawing on theoretical literature on the
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