Non-communicable diseases (NCDs)
- Contracting for the delivery of community health services: a review of global experience
- B. Loevinsohn;A. Harding / Health, Nutrition and Population Division, Human Development Department, World Bank, 2004
- To achieve the health-related Millennium Development Goals, it will be necessary to improve the delivery of health services, particularly to poor people. One proposed approach to improving both cov...
- India: equity effects of quality improvements on health service utilization and patient satisfaction in Uttar Pradesh State
- D. Peters;K. Rao;G.N.V Ramana / Health, Nutrition and Population Division, Human Development Department, World Bank, 2004
- Uttar Pradesh, with 170 million people is India’s most populous state. Socioeconomic inequalities in health outcomes are large within India overall, but more pronounced in Uttar Pradesh and neig...
- Mainstreaming nutrition in poverty reduction strategy papers: what does it take?
- M. Shekar;Y. Lee / Health, Nutrition and Population Division, Human Development Department, World Bank, 2006
- Due to their multisectoral nature Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSP) offer a unique opportunity to fight malnutrition, the agreed upon indicator monit...
- Hospital governance in Latin America: results from a four nation survey
- R. J. Bogue;C. H. Hall Jr;G. M. La Forgia / Health, Nutrition and Population Division, Human Development Department, World Bank, 2007
- This World Bank discussion paper reports on a survey of hospital governance in Latin America involving nearly 400 hospitals in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia and Mexico. The researchers identified four d...
- Public policy and the challenge of chronic noncommunicable diseases
- O. Adeyi;O. Smith;S. Robles / Health, Nutrition and Population Division, Human Development Department, World Bank, 2007
- This World Bank report contains an agenda for action in response to the growing economic, social and health problems posed by non-communicable diseases (NCDs). The report addresses the global non-comm...
- Healthy development: the World Bank strategy for health, nutrition, and population results
- Health, Nutrition and Population Division, Human Development Department, World Bank, 2007
- This World Bank strategy paper updates the 1997 Health, Nutrition, and Population (HNP) Strategy, and outlines the Bank’s vision and plan of action necessary to strengthen the Bank’s ca...
- Sector strategy: Health, Nutrition & Population
- A. S. Preker; G. A. Feachem; D. De Ferranti / Health, Nutrition and Population Division, Human Development Department, World Bank, 1997
- How does the World Bank assess the major trends and key development strategies in the health, nutrition and population (HNP) sector? This World Bank sector strategy paper reviews major trends and key ...
- Class Action: Improving School Performance in the Developing World Through Better Health and Nutrition
- Health, Nutrition and Population Division, Human Development Department, World Bank, 1999
- The success of survival programs for children under 5 in the developing world has created new challenges for improving the quality of life for the survivors: those who reach school age. Class...
- The Minimum Package of Health Services: Criteria, Methods and Data
- P. Cowley; J. Bobadilla; P. Musgrove; H. Saxenian / Health, Nutrition and Population Division, Human Development Department, World Bank, 1993
- Rationing of health services is inevitable in all health systems of the world. Due to the growing mismatch between health resources, recognizable health needs, demands for health care, criteria and po...
- Design, Content and Financing of an Essential National Package of Health Services
- J. Bobadilla; P. Cowley; P. Musgrove; H. Saxenian / Health, Nutrition and Population Division, Human Development Department, World Bank, 1993
- A minimum package of public health and clinical interventions, which are highly cost-effective and deal with major sources of disease burden, could be provided in low-income countries for about $ ...
