China is aging at an unprecedented rate. Improvements in life expectancy and the consequences of the decades-old family planning policy have led to a rapid increase in the elderly population.
... See More + According to the United Nations’ World Population Prospects, the proportion of older people age 65 and over will more than double from 2010 to 2030, and the elderly will account for over one quarterof the total population by 2050. Population aging will not only pose challenges for elder care but also have an impact on the economy and all aspects of society.
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The development objective of the Anhui Aged Care System Demonstration Project for China is to support the government of Anhui in developing and managing a diversified, three-tiered aged care service delivery system for the elderly, particularly those with limited functional ability.It has four components.
... See More + First component, supporting the development of government stewardship capacity will support development of a unified information system to facilitate both the development and management of the aged care service system; design and pilot an assessment of functional ability and needs to improve the effectiveness and quality of care services; establish a set of quality standards for aged care services; and support training and building a professional workforce (managers and administrators) for aged care services; Second component, strengthening community-based and home-based care services will strengthen the delivery and management of community-based and home-based care services in two project cities. The funds will be used to finance civil works, goods, consulting services and capacity-building activities and will contribute to the services improvements envisaged by the authorities; Third component, strengthening the delivery and management of nursing care will strengthen the delivery and management of urban skilled nursing facilities in two project cities; increase the capacity of government-run urban welfare homes in one project city; and strengthen the delivery and management capacity of government-run rural welfare homes, including developing options for public-private partnership in one district and four counties of one project municipality; Fourth component, project management, monitoring, and evaluation will support project management and build capacity in general management and planning to ensure an effective and efficient project implementation; provide technical guidance through a project expert panel (PEP) to support project implementation; and support the monitoring of the implementation of project activities and the achievements of the intended results.
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National Wealth is an important indicator of economic development—it shows if the national portfolio of assets is balanced to support gross domestic product (GDP) growth in the long-term.
... See More + While Belarus has demonstrated a rapid increase in national wealth, the accumulation of physical capital has coincided with a deterioration in the country's net foreign asset position. Improvements in Belarus's net international investment position would require strengthening intangible capital—economic institutions that improve the efficiency of available physical and human capital.
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The agreed-upon procedure (AUP) engagement can be used in a variety of circumstances that involve both financial and non-financial information engagements and cover public and private sector entities.
... See More + More recently, due to the increasing audit thresholds for smaller entities, the AUP engagement may affect the demand of stakeholders seeking alternatives to audit, such as lenders, and because of the flexibility this type of engagement offers, it can be tailored to different circumstances and focused on individual items of financial data. The objective of this group exercise is to enhance participants knowledge about the AUP engagement and illustrate it’s use in a variety of contexts to the benefit of a wide range of stakeholders. International standard on related services (ISRS) 4400, engagements to perform AUP regarding financial information provides standards and guidance when audit practitioners and or professional accountants perform AUP engagements.
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The manpower and organizational rationalization review report is the fifth deliverable of Task C. The next sections will focus on the analysis of the issues identified in the rapid assessment report and sector performance and structural sector reform reports and the measures to reach the objectives.
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From its inception, the Disease Control Priorities series has focused attention on delivering effective health interventions that can result in dramatic reductions in mortality and disability at relatively modest cost.
... See More + Disease Control Priorities, third edition builds on the foundation and analyses of the first and second editions (DCPI and DCPl2) to further inform program design and resource allocation at the global and country levels by providing an up-to-date comprehensive review at the effectiveness of priority health interventions, In addition, DCP3 presents systematic and comparable economic evaluations of selected interventions, packages, deliver, platforms, and policies based on newly developed economic methods. More children born today will survive to adulthood than at any time in human history. This is true both in terms of the proportion of live births and of absolute numbers. The current cohort of children who have survived to age 5 years will transition to adulthood around 2030 and will be the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) generation. The health, nutrition, and education of these young people as they develop from ages 5 to 19 years will have lifelong consequences for the adults they become and for their role in the development of the next generation. This volume presents its analyses and conclusions in thirty chapters grouped into five parts as follows: Part 1. Estimates of Mortality and Morbidity in Children (Ages 5 to 19 Years) explores mortality and morbidity in this age group, with a focus on low- and lower-middle-income countries; Part 2. Impact of Interventions during the Life Course (Ages 5–19 Years) reviews development issues at different stages in the life course and presents a conceptual framework for health and development from birth, through middle childhood and adolescence, to young adulthood; Part 3. Conditions and Interventions describes the evolving age distribution of disease and how new understanding of interventions and epidemiology has transformed the ways in which health systems can contribute to health and development objectives; Part 4. Packages and Platforms to Promote Child and Adolescent Development explores how novel approaches to policy that deliver health and development interventions to children and adolescents are slowly being implemented in low-income countries; and Part 5. The Economics of Child Development assembles economic data and seeks to prioritize interventions within three age classes of early childhood, school-age, and adolescence.
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Publication 121611 NOV 20, 2017
Patton,George C. (editor); Horton,Susan (editor); Silva,Nilanthi de (editor); Bundy,Donald A. P. (editor); Jamison,Dean T. (editor)Disclosed
