While on-track for child health and maternal health MDGs, Lao PDR continues to have some of the worst maternal and … child health (MCH) outcomes, both globally and in the East Asia and Pacific (EAP) region. Under-five and infant mortality … rates are high relative to GDP per capita, and utilization of essential health services is low, given significant demand …

Lao PDR has made notable progress in improving maternal health, with materanal mortality decreasing from 1,600 per 100 … addressed - the low utilization of maternal health (MH) services and weak financial protection, especially among the lower … wealth quintiles, in order to improve the level and equity of maternal health. In order to address these financial barriers …

This policy note provides an overview of government health financing in the Lao People's Democratic Republic (PDR …), with an added focus on health center financing. The note summarizes overall trends in health outcomes and government health … financing over 2000-2014 and analyzes trends in planned and realized government budgetary health spending data covering fiscal …

health services or interventions through comadronas (midwives) in Solola, Guatemala or the surrounding region. To this end … promoting the consideration and integration of Mayan maternal health practices and beliefs when designing maternal health …

aim of reducing smoking prevalence across the population. These scenarios provide inputs for modeling the long-term health …

-attributable diseases, catastrophic health expenditures, and extreme poverty averted. The additional tax burden is, however, borne mostly by … the top income group in the 62 percent price increase scenario. Thus, tobacco taxes are an effective way to improve health …

obesity and related diseases. In addition to detrimental health effects, overconsumption of SSBs can result in economic costs … derived from health care expenditures, forgone productivity, permanent disability, and premature death. The World Health …) larger amount of household budget expenditure on SSBs, (2) savings in out-of-pocket (OOP) spending on health care because of …

health and education sector. The focus is on the individual dimensions, whether effort (presence and workload) or knowledge … reported publicly in a comparable fashion, yet are among the factors that influence policy outcomes in health. The remainder of …

This report analyzes equity and financial protection in the health sector of Vietnam. In particular, it examines … inequalities in health outcomes, health behavior and health care utilization; benefit incidence analysis; financial protection; and … the progressivity of health care financing. Data are drawn from the 1992-93 and 1997-98 Vietnam living standards survey …

The health equity and financial protection reports are short country-specific volumes that provide a picture of equity … and financial protection in the health sectors of low-and middle-income countries. Topics covered include: inequalities in … health outcomes, health behavior and health care utilization; benefit incidence analysis; financial protection; and the …