Latin America and the Caribbean have been hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic, which continues to undo years of progress on health and human capital in the region. As of the end of 2021, nearly 50 million...
This document Delivering quality health services : a global imperative for universal health coverage describes the essential role of quality in the delivery of health care services. As nations commit to...
This paper applies the tenets of social inclusion to health policy and practice, arguing that achieving the goal of Universal Health Coverage (UHC) will be impossible without considering social and economic...
The development objective of the Support to Research and Development at the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative Project for World is to support the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI) in the...
As countries in Asia converge on the goal of universal health coverage (UHC), some common challenges are emerging. One is how to ensure coverage of the informal sector so as to make UHC truly universal;...
Countries have made substantial progress towards millennium development goals (MDGs) 4 and 5 - to reduce child mortality and improve maternal health. Since 1990, both maternal and child mortality have...
The 2006 World Health Report recognised that adequate human resources for health are needed to accelerate progress and sustain achievements in the context of the MDGs, and called for a decade of action...
The objective of the article is to directly estimate how much smoking contributes to cause-specific mortality in Bangladesh. A case–control study was conducted with surveillance data from Matlab, a rural...