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Health, Nutrition, and Population

WEBDiscusses the Health, Nutrition, and Population (HNP) Global Practice, which focuses on access to quality, affordable health, nutrition and population services and products in …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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Global Burden of Disease and Risk Factors

WEBGlobal Burden of Disease and Risk Factors. This volume is a single up-to-date source on the entire global epidemiology of diseases, injuries and risk factors with a …

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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 …

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Public-Private Partnerships in Health Independent Evaluation …

WEBAbstract: Access to essential health services is an important aspect of development. Governments from both developed and developing countries are increasingly looking at …

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The Health Sector in Ghana Directions in Development

WEBThe Health Sector in Ghana. Ghana's demographic profile is changing, and demographic, epidemiological, and nutrition transitions are well underway. However, several of …

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The Caribbean Regulatory System: A Subregional Approach for …

WEBAbstract: This report focuses on the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA), one of the three multi-national public health agencies in the world, that commenced operations on …

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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 …

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Designing and Implementing Health Care Provider Payment Systems

WEBDesigning and Implementing Health Care Provider Payment Systems: How-To Manuals addresses this need.The book has chapters on three of the most effective provider …

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Measuring the Performance of Health Workers Health Labor …

WEBDiscusses the performance of health workers within the system—their knowledge, experience, skills, and dedication—which can help translate other key data inputs from …

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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 …

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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 …

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Health Systems Assessment for Cote d’Ivoire Health, Nutrition …

WEBThe aim of this health financing system assessment (HFSA) is to guide policy discussions through assessment of the current context for implementation of the national health …

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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 …

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Strengths and Weaknesses of Ghana’s Health System

WEBIdentifies the strengths and weaknesses of Ghana’s health system in three broad areas: (1) governance, management, and organization; (2) delivery system, pharmaceuticals, and …

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Namibia Health Sector Public Expenditure Review

WEBAbstract: This Public Expenditure Review (PER) is the first for Namibia’s health sector. Namibia is an upper-middle income country that has made major progress in improving …

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