Documents & Reports
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Community Health Workers as Key Providers of Easy-to-Use Contraceptive Injectables : Experimental Evidence from Rural Burundi (English)
This study employs a cluster randomized controlled trial and administrative health center data to investigate the effects of authorizing community health workers to deliver a new generation of contraceptive...
Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS11074 Document Date: February 24, 2025 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Andreottola,Michele,Olivier Basenya,Victor Hugo Orozco Olvera,Reichert,Arndt,Spinola,Paula
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Sint Maarten - Improving Mental Health Services Project in Sint Maarten : Additional Financing and Restructuring (English)
The development objective of Improving Mental Health Services Project in Sint Maarten is to improve the capacity of mental health service delivery in Sint Maarten. This restructuring requires an additional...
Document Type: Project Paper Report No.: PPIAF000080 Document Date: December 23, 2024 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: World Bank
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Bhutan - Development Policy Financing With Catastrophe Deferred Drawdown Option Project (English)
Ratings of Development Policy Financing with Catastrophe Deferred Drawdown Option Project for Bhutan were as follows: overall outcome was moderately satisfactory, relevance of prior actions was satisfactory...
Document Type: Implementation Completion and Results Report Report No.: ICR6445 Document Date: May 10, 2024 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: World Bank
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Pakistan - Climate and Health Vulnerability Assessment (English)
Pakistan is one of the most vulnerable countries in the world to climate change. Extensive geographical diversity and exposure to a wide range of climate-related hazards, a strong dependency on agriculture...
Document Type: Report Report No.: 192424 Document Date: April 1, 2024 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Frake, April N.,Tamer Samah Rabie,Stephen Geoffrey Dorey,Christopher Jacob Boyer
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Silver Opportunity : Case Studies - Delivering Integrated People-Centered Care for High-Risk Populations : Abu Dhabi Population at Risk Program (English)
Through proactive and visionary leadership, Abu Dhabi was able to use the COVID-19 crisis to accelerate the introduction and adoption of digital health tools to protect the health of at-risk populations...
Document Type: Report Report No.: 186799 Document Date: January 5, 2024 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Al Hajeri, Omniyat M.,El-Saharty,Sameh,Al Hashemi, Hamed A.,Barada,Sara,Al-Modwahi, Arwa,Stanciole,Anderson Eduardo
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Effects of a Lottery Incentive on Sexually Transmitted Infections and HIV Incidence among Female Sex Workers in Tanzania : Results from the RESPECT II Randomized Trial (English)
Female sex workers are a key population who experience a disproportionately high burden of HIV and sexually transmitted infections. A growing body of evidence suggests that financial incentives can reduce...
Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS10571 Document Date: September 25, 2023 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Balampama,Marianna,De Walque,Damien B. C. M.,Dow,William H.,Hémono,Rebecca
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Behavioral insights for COVID-19 vaccine uptake in the Caribbean: rapid surveys from Belize, Haiti, and Jamaica (English)
In the wake of the pandemic, the greatest obstacle to COVID-19 vaccination in the Caribbean is vaccine acceptance and uptake rather than supply. Social media surveys were conducted in three Caribbean countries...
Document Type: Report Report No.: 185002 Document Date: September 1, 2023 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Amy Margolies,Ellen Moscoe,Daniel Pinzón,Micaela Mussini,Phillis Kim,Laura Di Giorgio
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Sint Maarten - Improving Mental Health Services Project in Sint Maarten (English)
The development objective of Improving Mental Health Services Project in Sint Maarten is to improve the capacity of mental health service delivery in Sint Maarten. This project has three components. 1)...
Document Type: Project Appraisal Document Report No.: PAD4901 Document Date: July 27, 2023 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: World Bank
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Përmirësimi i Kapitalit Njerëzor dhe Rritjes Ekonomike Përmes Trajtimit të Sëmundjeve jo të Transmetueshme në Kosovë (Albanian)
Sëmundjet jokomunikuese (NCD) pengojnë zhvillimin e kapitalit njerëzor për brezat e tanishëm dhe të ardhshëm. NCD-të janë kushte kronike që shpesh janë të patrajtueshme dhe kërkojnë një monitorim të ngushtë...
Document Type: Policy Note Report No.: 183386 Document Date: May 31, 2023 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: World Bank
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مشروع تدعيم كفاءة النظام الصحي وقدرته على الصمود في - الضفة الغربية وقطاع غزة (Arabic)
Document Type: Project Information Document Report No.: PIDA35343 Document Date: February 27, 2023 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: World Bank
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Argentina - Integración Funcional del Sistema de Salud Red Oncopediátrica en Argentina : Antecedentes, Capacidades y Desafíos (Spanish)
El presente estudio propone identificar y analizar el funcionamiento de las redes formales e informales abocadas al servicio médico oncopediátrico en Argentina, con el fin de determinar los desafíos para...
Document Type: Report Report No.: AUS0003229 Document Date: February 20, 2023 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Maceira, Daniel,Suárez, Patricia,Díaz, María Laura
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Djibouti - Improving Health Sector Performance Project (English)
Ratings of Improving Health Sector Performance Project for Djibouti were as follows: outcome was satisfactory, Bank performance was moderately satisfactory, and monitoring and evaluation quality was modest...
Document Type: Implementation Completion and Results Report Report No.: ICR5768 Document Date: October 31, 2022 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: World Bank
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The Cost of Mental Health in Ukraine : The Review of Privately and Publicly Procured Medicines and Dietary Supplements (2015-2019) (English)
This report attempts to provide a comprehensive summary of the relevant indicators of mental health and present a detailed analysis of the cost of psychiatric care, particularly highlighting the cost of...
Document Type: Report Report No.: 176605 Document Date: October 6, 2022 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Sukhovii,Oleksii,Khan,Olga,Doroshenko,Olena,Shekhar,Vrishali
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Inferring COVID-19 Vaccine Attitudes from Twitter Data : An Application to the Arabic Speaking World (English)
This study investigates whether Twitter data can be used to infer attitudes towards COVID-19 vaccination with an application to the Arabic speaking world. At first glance, anti-vaccine sentiment estimated...
Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS10165 Document Date: September 6, 2022 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Van Der Weide,Roy
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Immunization Financing Assessment : Pakistan (English)
Pakistan’s immunization program has made great strides in the last two decades, especially regarding increased vaccine coverage. Important challenges remain, however : for example, Pakistan continues to...
Document Type: Report Report No.: 172473 Document Date: June 13, 2022 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Hadi,Qurat Ul Ain,Oelrichs,Robert,Kashif,Aliya,Yunus,Hammad,Lara Oliveros,Carlos Alberto,Beith, Alix
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A Novel Tobacco Market Diversification : Unsmoking Rich Countries while Smoking Low-and-Middle Income Countries (English)
In this working paper, an exploration of available data and information is conducted and findings presented, to support the view that the dichotomous business model and related harm reduction narrative...
Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 171015 Document Date: April 26, 2022 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Marquez,Patricio V.
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World - Strengthening of CSOs and Youth Organizations to Improve Health and Nutrition Gains for Women, Children and Adolescents Project (English)
The development objective of Strengthening of Civil Society Organization (CSO) and Youth Organizations to Improve Health and Nutrition Gains for Women, Children and Adolescents Project for World is enhancing...
Document Type: Project Paper Report No.: PP4920 Document Date: March 6, 2022 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: World Bank
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Learning Lessons for Education from the Use of Results-based Financing (RBF) in Health (English)
The health sector provides an important knowledge base to draw on, both from the perspective of using RBF and in terms of the challenges it faces in ensuring quality service provision, particularly in...
Document Type: Report Report No.: 170433 Document Date: December 2, 2021 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Peter, Rose Tuyeni,Redpath, Helen,Savell, Louise,Smith, Anja,Taylor,Nick,Vally, Zaahedah,Wishnia, Jodi
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Romania - The 2021 - 2030 Integrated Urban Development Strategy of Simeria Functional Urban Area : Public Services (English)
Education and health generally have a higher standard in towns compared to rural areas, the local authorities playing a key role in ensuring the infrastructure for these services. In the survey conducted...
Document Type: Report Report No.: 168419 Document Date: June 29, 2021 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: World Bank
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România - Strategia Integrată de Dezvoltare Urbană a Zonei Urbane Simeria 2021- 2030 : Mediu și Schimbările Climatice (Romanian)
The environmental issues are increasingly important for the people living in the Romanian cities and towns. Air pollution, traffic and health infrastructure are the three main problems identified by citizens...
Document Type: Report Report No.: 168422 Document Date: May 31, 2021 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: World Bank