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This study shows that Uganda has similar or somewhat better health indicators than other African countries with a … similar income level. However further effort is needed to address inequality in health outcomes and in the health system …) prioritizing interventions that affect infant and maternal mortality, (b) improving health promotion and disease prevention …
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added new challenges and opportunities for change. Among those changes is the need to include digital health solutions and … think about how new digital health interventions can enhance efficiency and transform the way primary healthcare is being … provided or delivered in the country. This report, prepared by the World Bank for Lesotho's Ministry of Health, documents the …
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Bulgaria has undertaken several significant health sector reforms during the past decade, but a large unfinished policy …, while government spending on health is relatively low. Various indicators of reported public satisfaction with the health … the sustainability of the system in doubt and crowding out expenditures on more pressing priorities such as primary health …
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"The literature contains few impact evaluations of health sector reforms, especially those involving broad and …-funded health sector reform project in China known as Health VIII. On the supply-side, the project combined infrastructure … health centers and county hospitals, and interventions aimed at improving the effectiveness and quality of care, including …
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For humanitarian reasons and the concern for households' economic and health security, the health sector is at the … center of global development policy. Developing countries and the international community are scaling up health systems to … gains. Yet money alone cannot buy health gains or prevent impoverishment due to catastrophic medical bills; well structured …
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The Timor-Leste health sector review describes the accomplishments made by the government of Timore-Leste in the health … when available, are also reasons for the poor health quality indicators. Improving the quality or effectiveness of health … services is difficult. However, now that most of the basic health care infrastructure is in place, the time is right for the …
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to the positive spillover effects on everyones health that occurs when all (or the overwhelming majority of) households …
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The Government of Ethiopia has recently confirmed its commitment to accelerate progress on maternal and child health … essential health and nutrition services to the country's rural poor. Health outcomes are slowly improving but remain low …
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