This year holds special significance as the midpoint in implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). With each step closer to the end of the SDG implementation window, efforts to measure...
There is still a lack of health workers in the Republic of Congo (RoC) to achieve Universal Health Coverage (UHC) by 2030. There is a significant variation in the proportion of staff on Payroll versus...
The Republic of Congo government is making continuous efforts to improve the share of government expenditures going to health. After a steady decline in 2013, the share of government health expenditures...
The Republic of Congo (ROC) has enacted an organic law requiring the preparation and execution of the government budget following the programmatic approach rather than the traditional line-item budgeting...
The analysis of Fiscal space in the health sector allows us to identify and document the different opportunities and limitations of creating additional financial resources in the health sector without...
The El Salvador Strengthening Public Health Care System Project’s success resulted largely from the Salvadoran government’s unwavering commitment to and ownership of the Project and its goals. The Project...
Men are the primary consumers of tobacco products in Afghanistan: 48 percent of men from 15–49 years of age that have ever been married use tobacco, compared with 6 percent of women. Approximately 22 percent...
This knowledge brief provides an overview of equity and targeting and the value-add of using an equity-based approach to adolescent and youth health service delivery. For TTLs, policy makers and program/project...
This knowledge brief presents the costs of scaling up key effective nutrition interventions in Kenya and compares different scale-up scenarios to determine which one produces the best results for the lowest...
Mexico faces a major health and economic burden due to the large and increasing number of adults and children suffering from overweight and obesity. More than two-thirds of adults are suffering from overweight...
Declines in child mortality, followed by declines in fertility, produce a youth bulge generation and a period when a country has a large number of working age people and a smaller number of dependents...
This HNP knowledge brief focuses on the key findings of the World Bank case study entitled ‘verification of performance in Results-Based Financing (RBF): the case of Panama’s health protection for vulnerable...
Since the end of the Taliban period, Afghanistan made remarkable progress, particularly in the health sector. Between 1990 and 2013, infant mortality declined from 121.3 to 70.2 deaths per 1’000 live births;...
This brief provides guidance in the design of effective tobacco tax policies in countries such as the emerging ASEAN economies, where tax administration and enforcement capacity may not be as strong as...
Tobacco use is a major challenge to international development. Despite being a signatory to the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) and a Tobacco Free Pacific, Papua New Guinea is one of the...
In Papua New Guinea the poorest quintile is most vulnerable to illness, yet has the lowest utilization rates of healthcare facilities. When looking at age groups the elderly (> 55) are the most vulnerable...
Despite rapid economic growth during the past decade, the stunting rate for children under 5, one of the primary indicators for child under-nutrition, is estimated at 46 percent in Papua New Guinea. An...
Sex ratio at birth, the number of boys born for every 100 girls, has increased in the South Caucasus in the past decades. A World Bank study sought to produce rigorous and supporting evidence on the issue...
Involving communities in monitoring of services is often undertaken, but involving them in directly managing health service delivery is less common. Incentivizing health staff to improve performance is...
In 2010, nearly 74,000 new cases of cervical cancer were diagnosed among Indian women. This number is estimated to increase to as high as 225,000 cases by 2025. Cervical cancer is also the leading cause...