Documents & Reports
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Financial Protection Outcomes in Four East Asian Countries During COVID-19 : Cambodia, Vietnam, Thailand and Indonesia (English)
This paper examines the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Universal Health Coverage (UHC) and financial protection in four East Asia and Pacific (EAP) countries, focusing on the dynamics of healthcare...
Document Type: Report Report No.: 194490 Document Date: October 1, 2024 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Katelyn Jison Yoo,Sharma, Jayendra,Patrick Hoang-Vu Eozenou,Christophe Lemiere
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Tracking the Distribution of Medical Equipment and Supplies during the COVID-19 Health Emergency (English)
Argentina’s COVID-19 Emergency Project was among the first operations under the World Bank’s global response to the COVID-19 epidemic. The first of the two loans included under this Project was approved...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 194892 Document Date: October 1, 2024 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Vanina Camporeale,Arana,Leandro,Zanetta,Cecilia
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The Healthy Longevity Initiative: Key Insights for Policy and Action (English)
The global demographic landscape is at a crossroads, with rapid declines in fertility and aging populations holding profound implications for employment, social services, and wellbeing. Population aging...
Document Type: Report Report No.: 193500 Document Date: September 27, 2024 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Sameera Maziad Al Tuwaijri,Jha, Prabhat,Alleyne,George,Isenman, Paul,Saadat, Seemeen,Garcia, Gisela,Jeremy Veillard
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L'initiative pour Une Longévité Alliée à Une Bonne Santé : Informations Essentielles pour Les Politiques et l’Action (French)
The global demographic landscape is at a crossroads, with rapid declines in fertility and aging populations holding profound implications for employment, social services, and wellbeing. Population aging...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 193500 Document Date: August 1, 2024 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: World Bank
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L'initiative pour Une Longévité Alliée à Une Bonne Santé: Informations Essentielles pour Les Politiques et l’Action (French)
The global demographic landscape is at a crossroads, with rapid declines in fertility and aging populations holding profound implications for employment, social services, and wellbeing. Population aging...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 193500 Document Date: August 1, 2024 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Sameera Maziad Al Tuwaijri,Jha,Prabhat,Alleyne,George,Isenman,Paul,Seemeen Saadat,Gisela M. Garcia,Jeremy Veillard
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Iniciativa Sobre Longevidad Saludable: Ideas Centrales para Políticas y Acciones (Spanish)
El panorama demográfico mundial se encuentra en una encrucijada, con una rápida disminución de la fertilidad y el envejecimiento de la población que tienen profundas implicaciones para el empleo, los servicios...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 193500 Document Date: August 1, 2024 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Sameera Altuwaijri,Prabhat Jha,Alleyne,George,Paul Isenman,Seemeen Saadat,Gisela M. Garcia,Jeremy Veillard
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Aging and Health: Policy Considerations for Long-term Care (English)
Providing care for older parents or parents-in-law significantly reduces the probability of employment and annual earnings, particularly among women and intensive caregivers, which remains the most prevalent...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 193502 Document Date: July 31, 2024 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Meriem Boudjadja,Sameera Maziad Al Tuwaijri,Seemeen Saadat
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Gender Gaps in Healthy Longevity: Outcomes, Barriers, and Implications (English)
Gender gaps in access to, and use of health and long-term care services affect both women and men, albeit differently. While male mortality due to key non-communicable diseases (NCDs), particularly in...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 193503 Document Date: July 31, 2024 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Seemeen Saadat,Meriem Boudjadja,Sameera Maziad Al Tuwaijri
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Introducing Strategic Purchasing in Costa Rica (English)
The Costa Rican Social Security Fund (CCSS) has taken its first steps towards the introduction of strategic purchasing of healthcare services with a pilot that was introduced for the first time as part...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 192500 Document Date: July 1, 2024 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Laura Di Giorgio,Valenzuela, Ana Lucia Rosado,Ashley Lauren Sheffel,Micaela Mussini
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La Introducción de Modelos de Adquisiciones Estratégicas en Costa Rica (Spanish)
La Caja Costarricense de Seguro Social (CCSS) ha dado los primeros pasos hacia la compra estratégica de servicios de salud con una fase piloto que se introdujo por primera vez como parte del presupuesto...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 192500 Document Date: July 1, 2024 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Laura Di Giorgio,Valenzuela, Ana Lucia Rosado,Ashley Lauren Sheffel,Micaela Mussini
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The Burden of Road Traffic Injuries in Jordan : Evidence for Policy (English)
Road traffic injuries (RTIs) are a critical public health issue in Jordan, as highlighted in the 2022 Annual Report on Road Traffic Injuries. With 169,409 crashes recorded, resulting in 562 deaths and...
Document Type: Report Report No.: 192774 Document Date: June 30, 2024 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Bader, Rania,Fawzi, Imad,Diya Nitham Mousa Elfadel,Bajaj, Tripti,Sameh El-Saharty,Sunna, Lana,Said Dahdah
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Impact of Out-of-pocket Health Payments on Poverty and Alignment of Public and External Health Financing in Guinea (English)
There has been limited data on the impact of out-of-pocket health payments (OOPs) on extreme poverty in Guinea. Yet, these data are necessary for making informed decisions in the fight against poverty...
Document Type: Report Report No.: 192436 Document Date: June 2, 2024 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Kpegli, Yao Thibaut,Teegwende Valerie Porgo,Zenab Konkobo Kouanda
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Impact des Dépenses Directes de Santé sur la Pauvreté et Conformité du Financement Public et Externe de la Santé en Guinée (French)
Il existe peu de données sur l’impact des dépenses directes de santé (DDS) sur l’extrême pauvreté en Guinée. Ces données sont pourtant nécessaires pour prendre des décisions éclairées pour lutter contre...
Document Type: Report Report No.: 192436 Document Date: June 1, 2024 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Kpegli, Yao Thibaut,Porgo, Teegwende Valerie,Konkobo Kouanda, Zenab
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Investing in Vaccine Security in the ASEAN Region (English)
Vaccine security and self-sufficiency have received increased global attention in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, as low- and middle-income countries were heavily dependent on high-income countries...
Document Type: Report Report No.: 191136 Document Date: June 1, 2024 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Schäferhoff, Marco,Gandham N.V. Ramana,Zimmerman, Armand,Fewer, Sara,Andreas Seiter,Pandu Harimurti,Sowers, Erin,Ronald Upenyu Mutasa
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Health Economics Institutions: A Review of Global Experience (English)
This paper was prepared to support the Libyan Ministry of Health in designing and establishing its health economics unit. Over the past decade, Libya’s health system has been significantly and negatively...
Document Type: Report Report No.: 190948 Document Date: April 1, 2024 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Rakic,Severin,Hamza,Mariam Mohamed Samir Amin,Mathivet,Benoit,Duran,Denizhan,Alzarouq,Alzarouq Khaleefa
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Review of Telemedicine Business Models in Vietnam : Findings, Challenges, and Recommendations (English)
This review was conducted using secondary data combined with key informant interviews aiming to (1) understand the current state of telemedicine services in Viet Nam, their business models and challenges;...
Report No.: 190016 Document Date: April 1, 2024 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Lung Vu,Sang Minh Le,Vu, Thai
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Preserving Rwanda's Progress Towards Reducing Maternal and Child Mortality and Ensuring Access to Sexual and Reproductive Health Services : A Long-standing Commitment with a New Perspective (English)
Improvements in the health outcomes of women, young girls, and children will be key to Rwanda attaining three of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) focused on good health and wellbeing (SDG3)...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 189375 Document Date: March 1, 2024 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Amparo Elena Gordillo-Tobar,Prata, Neia,Francisca Ayodeji Akala,Nataliya De Francisco Serpa
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Digital Journey in Primary Health Care - Empowering Patients with Noncommunicable Diseases in Vietnam (English)
The study reviewed available patient-facing digital applications for people with noncommunicable diseases along their journey in primary health care settings and proposed strategic action areas to advance...
Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 188289 Document Date: February 29, 2024 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Le,Sang Minh,Quang,Hông Trân
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Towards a Framework for Impact Pathways Between NCDs, Human Capital and Healthy Longevity, Economic and Wellbeing Outcomes (English)
Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are one of the major health and development challenges of our time, impacting not only higher income countries, but increasingly lower income ones as well. It is important...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 193501 Document Date: February 29, 2024 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: O’Keef, Philip,Haldane, Victoria
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Integrating the Response to Ncds and Mental Health in the Context of Building Resilient Health Systems in Africa: Workshop Summary (English)
From June 6 to 8, 2023, the Ministry of Health of Rwanda organized an event entitled “Integrating the Response to Noncommunicable Diseases (NCDs) and Mental Health (MH) in the Context of Building Resilient...
Document Type: Report Report No.: 188740 Document Date: January 2, 2024 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Francisca Ayodeji Akala,Amparo Elena Gordillo-Tobar,Rialda Kovacevic,Medici,Andre,Nugent,Rachel