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The Changing HIV/AIDS Landscape
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 500

The Changing HIV/AIDS Landscape

HIV/AIDS reverses life expectancy gains, erodes productivity, consumes savings and dilutes growth efforts, threatening the realization of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in Africa.The report is the result of an extensive analytical and consultative process begun in 2006, that engaged more than 1,000 people from over 30 countries and many institutions mostly in Africa, as well as UN agencies, multilateral and bilateral donors, and foundations. The report reaffirms the Bank's commitment to combating HIV/AIDS in Africa, moving from its initial emergency response to the next phase, including the goal to provide at least US $250 million annually and to create an Africa HIV/AIDS Incentive Fund to enhance the evidence base, promote the multisectoral response and provide technical support, analysis and policy advice to countries.

The Health Workforce in Ethiopia
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 117

The Health Workforce in Ethiopia

Although Ethiopia has made steady progress in health outcomes over the past 10 years, some health challenges remain, particularly those related to maternal health. In part this may be linked to the insufficient number of health professionals providing maternal care services, particularly in the rural parts of the country.

Are You Being Served?
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 454

Are You Being Served?

This publication presents tools and techniques for measuring service delivery in health and education and people's experiences from the field in deploying these methods. It begins by providing an introduction to the different methodological tools available for evaluating the performance of the health and education sectors. Country specific experiences are then explored to highlight lessons on the challenges, advantages and disadvantages of using different techniques to measure quality in a variety of different contexts and of using the resulting data to affect change. This book is a valuable resource for those who seek to enhance capacity for the effective measurement of service delivery in order to improve accountability and governance and enhance the quality of service delivery in developing countries.

Universal Health Coverage for Inclusive and Sustainable Development
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 75

Universal Health Coverage for Inclusive and Sustainable Development

The goals of universal health coverage (UHC) are to ensure that all people can access quality health services, to safeguard all people from public health risks, and to protect all people from impoverishment due to illness, whether from out-of-pocket payments for health care or loss of income when a household member falls sick. Countries as diverse as Brazil, France, Japan, Thailand, and Turkey have shown how UHC can serve as vital mechanisms for improving the health and welfare of their citizens, and lay the foundation for economic growth and competitiveness grounded in the principles of equity and sustainability. Ensuring universal access to affordable, quality health services will be an im...

Integrating Poverty and Gender Into Health Programmes
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 102

Integrating Poverty and Gender Into Health Programmes

Although poverty and gender significantly influence health and socio-economic development, health professionals are not always adequately prepared to address such issues in their work. This publication, one of a set of modules intended for use in pre-service and in-service training of health professionals in the Western Pacific Region, focuses on the inter-relationship between poverty and health, including definitions of poverty and its multiple dimensions; indicators of poverty including methods of determining the prevalence of poverty and inequality within a community; how the health care system can address issues of poverty, with a special focus on low-income women and those from other marginalised or vulnerable groups.

Globalization and Public Sector Reform in China
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 257

Globalization and Public Sector Reform in China

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-04-24
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  • Publisher: Routledge

This book analyses public sector reform comprehensively in all parts of China’s public sector – government bureaucracy, public service units and state-owned enterprises. It argues that reform of the public sector has become an issue of great concern to the Chinese leaders, who realize that efficient public administration is key to securing the regime’s governing capacity and its future survival. The book shows how thinking about public sector reform has shifted in recent decades from a quantitative emphasis on 'small government', which involved the reduction in size of what was perceived as a bloated bureaucracy, to an emphasis on the quality of governance, which may result in an incre...

Incentives and Dynamics in the Ethiopian Health Worker Labor Market
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 94

Incentives and Dynamics in the Ethiopian Health Worker Labor Market

By international standards, health workers in Ethiopia are in short supply. In addition, those who do enter the health fields and remain in the country disproportionately live and work in the capital, Addis Ababa. This paper uses detailed data gathered from nearly 1,000 health workers to examine the incentives and constraints that health workers face when choosing where to work, the likely responses of workers to alternative incentive packages, and the longer term performance of the health worker labor market. This working paper was produced as part of the World Bank s Africa Region Health Systems for Outcomes (HSO) Program. The Program, funded by the World Bank, the Government of Norway, the Government of the United Kingdom and the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI), focuses on strengthening health systems in Africa to reach the poor and achieve tangible results related to Health, Nutrition and Population. The main pillars and focus of the program center on knowledge and capacity building related to Human Resources for Health, Health Financing, Pharmaceuticals, Governance and Service Delivery, and Infrastructure and ICT.

Financing Health Care in East Asia and the Pacific
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 357

Financing Health Care in East Asia and the Pacific

East Asian and Pacific countries are growing rapidly. They need high quality, well-funded health systems to underpin their population growth and assure continued productivity and economic growth. But countries will need to spend wisely, using modern techniques of insurance and strategic contracting with providers.

The Government Analytics Handbook
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1198

The Government Analytics Handbook

The Government Analytics Handbook presents frontier evidence and practitioner insights on how to leverage data to strengthen public administration. Covering a range of microdata sources—such as administrative data and public servant surveys—as well as tools and resources for undertaking the analytics, it transforms the ability of governments to take a data-informed approach to diagnose and improve how public organizations work.Readers can order the book as a single volume in print or digital formats, or visit worldbank.org/governmentanalytics for modular access and additional hands-on tools. The Handbook is a must-have for practitioners, policy makers, academics, and government agencies....

Community Crime Prevention
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 20

Community Crime Prevention

Do citizen and police initiatives have any impact on the incidence and fear of crime? This volume brings together studies, undertaken by well-respected criminal justice scholars, of some community crime prevention programmes that were introduced in several major US cities. The volume is unique in its breadth of focus: its contributors address a broad and varied audience, including practitioners, policy-makers and scholars interested in community crime prevention and evaluation research. They present detailed descriptions of the intervention, the evaluation of the intervention and the issues surrounding both. Other topics discussed include the process of encouraging and organizing citizen involvement, the setting of programme goals and useful forms of assessment. Community Crime Prevention promises to stimulate much further discussion, research and policy analysis.