generation of policy makers. Good health improves the capacity to learn and work, which dramatically improves income and welfare …

-10. During the entire period, the rural health Analytic and Advisory Activities (AAA) team analyzed the sector and debated reform … happened in China's rural health system and why, and to present a global perspective on the options for further strengthening … the sector. China is well on its way to achieving a modern, equitable, and well-functioning rural health sector, but this …

/Kenya requested that the Private Sector Partnerships-One project (PSP One) conduct an assessment of the private health sector in Kenya …. The scope of work involved assessing the role of the private sector in the overall health system, considering the … equity, access, and efficiency in the health system. The development of the scope of work also coincided with the start up of …

This report reviews performance of Uganda's health sector and assesses options for increasing total health spending and … improving efficiency of health spending to improve health, nutrition, and population outcomes. Although Uganda's health outcomes … are improving, the country is unlikely to achieve its national targets for health as well as the health related Millennium …

This report compiles recent evidence on the Zambian health labor market and provides some baseline information on human … resources for health (HRH) to help the government address its HRH challenges. Rather than focusing on making policy … presented in the report covers the period 2005-08. The report analyzes the national health labor market to better understand the …

Health indicators in Ethiopia, particularly on child health and malaria, have improved significantly in recent years …, with the next challenge now focused on improving maternal health indicators. Improvements in child health and malaria in … particular can be attributed to strong government commitment towards health results, reflected in a number of notable policies …

widespread but with significant urban-rural differences (52 percent versus 74 percent). Health, nutrition, and the fight against …-2012. The National Health Sector and Social Protection Development Plan 2007-2011 was developed to strengthen the health system … communicable illnesses. The health sector has benefited from increasing investment over the last years, and a number of studies and …

This country assessment of the private health sector in Mali is part of a series of studies designed to deepen … understanding of ways to enhance the health policy framework, business environment, and investment climate in which the private … health sector operates in African countries. The Malian health system has evolved dramatically since the middle of the 1980s …

Health systems across Africa are in urgent need of improvement. The public sector should not be expected to shoulder … the burden of directly providing the needed services alone, nor can it, given the current realities of African health … systems. Therefore to achieve necessary improvements, governments will need to rely more heavily on the private health sector …

Most countries in Sub-Saharan Africa confront serious health challenges; however, Ghana has done beer than many of its … development partners. Ghana has separated policy making the Ministry of Health, (MOH) from provision Ghana Health Service (GHS) in … the public sector and decentralized health service management to the district level. In 2004, Ghana instituted its …