In 2021, the Fifteenth Finance Commission (XVFC) recognized the need to unlock the potential of the local governments level in India’s federal health landscape. Unfortunately, there has been a considerable...
This guide was prepared for policy-makers at all levels of government and those who support them, such as technical units, experts and scientific advisory groups and teams responsible for collecting and...
The demographic transition accompanied by the epidemiological transition, evidenced by the change in the health profile of the Brazilian population, brings important challenges to the Unified Health System...
This document analyzes the indirect costs of mental health for adolescents and young adults in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) region and its potential impact in lowering human capital in the region...
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...
Operating in environments marked by fragility, conflict, and violence poses complex and distinct challenges, and the Palestinian case is no different. A significant body of literature has emphasized the...
Rating for the Health System Support and Strengthening (SENI) Project for Central African Republic (CAR) were as follows: outcome and Bank performance was moderately satisfactory and monitoring and evaluation...
As COVID-19 vaccines have become more widely available in Sub-Saharan Africa, vaccination campaigns in the region have struggled to pick up pace and trail the rest of the world. This paper presents new...
This brief focuses on the World Bank Group-Republic of Korea partnership on pandemic preparedness and response. This partnership focuses on developing a comprehensive understanding of successful responses...
This analysis describes specific gaps in the quality of health care in Central Africa and assesses the association between quality of clinical care and mortality at age 2–59 months. Regionally representative...
The determinants of primary health facility performance in developing countries have not been well studied. One of the most under-researched areas is health facility management. This study investigated...
The development objective of the Emergency Health and Nutrition Project for Yemen will be modified to reflect additional water and sanitation services (WSS) activities to be financed by the proposed second...
In 2011, Japan celebrated the 50th anniversary of its own achievement of universal health coverage (UHC). On this occasion, the government of Japan and the World Bank conceived the idea of undertaking...
Ratings for the Tamil Nadu Health Systems Project for India were as follows: outcomes were highly satisfactory, the risk to development outcome was negligible, the Bank performance was highly satisfactory...
The objective of the Improving Health Sector Performance Project for Djibouti is to improve the utilization of quality health care services for maternal and child health and communicable disease control...
The Population and Health Support Project of Niger has the following objectives: 1) Evaluate the current health care waste management system with a view to obtaining the major lessons; 2) To propose a...