The main purpose of this report is to assess the degree to which progress has been made by the Government of Uzbekistan in increasing the transparency, accountability, and efficiency of its primary health services, and to identify what further steps could be taken to improve the effectiveness of...

Vietnam's successes in the health sector are legendary. Its rates of infant and under-five mortality are comparable to those of countries with substantially higher per capita incomes. Vietnam continues to be an over-achiever in the health sector according to data assembled in this book. Like...

Fundamental and systemic changes would have to be brought about in the ways that health care is financed, delivered, organized, and managed in Turkey in order to meet the ultimate objective of improving the health status of people, and not only meet but surpass the health-related Millennium...

Fundamental and systemic changes would have to be brought about in the ways that health care is financed, delivered, organized, and managed in Turkey in order to meet the ultimate objective of improving the health status of people, and not only meet but surpass the health-related Millennium...

In 1997, the Ministry of Health and Population (MOHP) of the Government of Egypt (GOE) launched a comprehensive Health Sector Reform Program (HSRP) aiming to develop a national health system, based on social insurance that would address existing problems in equity, access, efficiency, quality...

Bolivia made progress in health status and equity in the last decade, thanks to the implementation of a series of health policies directed primarily at reducing maternal and infant mortality and controlling communicable diseases. These policies include the introduction of a focus on health...