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Rwanda: one health strategic plan (2014-2018)

Republic of Rwanda (2014) C2

The strategic plan reflects shared commitments to enhance collaboration between environmental, animal (wildlife and domestic) and human health, and building new One Health workforce capacity through higher institutions of learning. The strategy also outlines interventions to be undertaken by governm... more

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Health and social welfare sector public private partnerships policy guidelines

Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, Tanzania (2013) CC

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Greater than the Sum of Its Parts: Blended Finance Roadmap for Global Health

Center for Innovation and Impact (CII), USAID (2019) C2

In an environment of stagnant donor funding and increasing private sector investment in low- and middle-income countries, actors in both the public and private sectors are increasingly interested in using blended finance approaches to catalyze new funding for global health and achieve health outcome... more

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Rwanda: HEALTH SECTOR ANNUAL REPORT July 2014-June 2015

Ministry of Health, Rwanda (2015) C2

For the Fiscal Year 2014-2015, the Health Sector continued to implement interventions and strategies meant to improve the availability, accessibility and utilization of quality healthcare services across public and private health facilities; and to ensure the reduction of the burden of communicable ... more

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A SPECIAL STUDY ON PROVISION OF CARE FOR SICK NEWBORNS IN THE PRIVATE SECTOR IN NEPAL

Save the Children International (2017) C2

This study was an exploratory situation analysis assessing public and private service providers knowledge, attitudes and practice to treat possible severe bacterial infection (PSBI) among children less than six months of age.

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Service Standards and Service Delivery Standards for the Health Sector

Republic of Uganda, Ministry of Health (2016) C1

The Ministry of Health has developed the first version of the Service Standards and Service Delivery Standards for the health sector in Uganda. The main objective is to provide a common understanding of what is expected by the public, service users and service providers in ensuring provision of cons... more

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Increasing equity in health service access and financing: Health strategy, policy achievements and new challenges

Annear, Peter Leslie; Veasnakiry, Lo; Momoe Takeuchi World Health Organization (WHO) (2016) C_WHO

Policy note: Cambodia Health Systems in Transition.
The health system includes a mix of public and private providers. The use of private providers is much greater among the wealthy, while the use of informal-sector health providers is greater among the poor. Due to these circumstances there is ... more

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Senegal private health sector assessment: Selected health products and services

Brunner B., J. Barnes, A. Carmona et. al. United States Agency for International Development (2016) C2

SHOPS and HIA finalized a scope of work with USAID Senegal in April 2015, and a team of five private sector experts conducted the onsite assessments between May and June 2015. The Private Sector Assessment (PSA) team worked closely with Senegalese key stakeholders throughout the process. The PSA tea... more

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Private health sector assessment: selected health products and services in Sénégal

Brunner B., J. Barnes, A. Carmona et. al. United States Agency for International Development (2016) C2

USAID Senegal and Health in Africa (HIA) initiative of the World Bank Group engaged the Strengthening Health Outcomes through the Private Sector (SHOPS) project to conduct an assessment of the private health sector in Senegal. The assessment’s primary focus is family planning, and its secondary fo... more

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‘Asks’ to the private sector in the response to COVID-19

World Health Organization WHO (2020) C_WHO

The 'asks' have been prepared for private businesses to take concrete actions in the COVID19 pandemic.

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Measures to strengthen primary health-care systems in low- and middle-income countries

Etienne V Langlois, Andrew Mc Kenzie, Helen Schneider & Jeffrey W Mecaskey World Health Organization (2020) C_WHO

Primary health care offers a cost–effective route to achieving universal health coverage (UHC). However, primary health-care systems are weak in many low- and middle-income countries and often fail to provide comprehensive, people-centred, integrated care. We analysed the primar... more

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Pharmacies and Drug Shops: Expanding contraceptive choice and access in the private sector

Dwyer, S.C.; et al. HIP Family Planning High Impact Practices (2021) CC

this Service Delivery brief provides evidence-based strategies that can help support drug shops and pharmacies in providing a wider variety of family planning methods and information. Evidence shows that with training and support, pharmacy and drug shop staff can facilitate the use of a broad range ... more

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Public-private partnerships for health care infrastructure and services: considerations for policy makers in Ukraine

World Health Organization WHO, Regional Office of Europe (2022) C_WHO

ndependent of the current conflict, the health sector in Ukraine faces several critical shortcomings. In particular, the country has an oversupply of hospitals and an undersupply of primary care and diagnostic facilities. Addressing these limitations will require substantial amounts of capital inves... more

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A framework for the quantification and economic valuation of health outcomes originating from health and non-health climate change mitigation and adaptation action

World Health Organization WHO (2023) C_WHO

This report presents a framework to link science, policy and practice for a comprehensive assessment of climate mitigation and adaptation investments and their impact on human health.The framework proposes to use weather and climate data to forecast health impacts over time, as well as biophysical a... more

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Primary health care and HIV: convergent actions - Policy considerations for decision-makers

World Health Organization WHO (2023) C_WHO

The 2030 health-related Sustainable Development Goals call on countries to end AIDS as a public health threat and also to achieve universal health coverage. The World Health Organization (WHO) promotes primary health care (PHC) as the key mechanism for achieving universal health coverage, and the PH... more

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Following the money: Toward Better Tracking of Global Health Resources

Center for Global Development Center for Global Development (2007) C1

This report started with a simple question—“How can we tell how much funding is devoted to global health programs?”—and ended (more than two years later) with an answer that is far from simple. As those who have tried know well, tracking health-related funding is challenging in any setting, ... more

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Future and potential spending on health 2015–40: development assistance for health, and government, prepaid private, and out-of-pocket health spending in 184 countries

Global Burden of Disease Health Financing Collaborator Network Lancet (2017) C1

Background: The amount of resources, particularly prepaid resources, available for health can affect access to health care and health outcomes. Although health spending tends to increase with economic development, tremendous variation exists among health financing systems. Estimates of future spendi... more

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Health sector spending and spending on HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria, and development assistance for health: progress towards Sustainable Development Goal 3

Global Burden of Disease Health Financing Collaborator Network Lancet (2020) C1

Background: Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 3 aims to “ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages”. While a substantial effort has been made to quantify progress towards SDG3, less research has focused on tracking spending towards this goal. We used spending estimates to ... more

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First, Do No Harm - Examining the impact of the IFC’s support to private healthcare in India

Anjela Taneja and Amitabha Sarkar Oxfam International (2023) CC

This report examines the support to private healthcare provision in India by the World Bank’s private sector arm, the International Finance Corporation (IFC). Despite supporting private healthcare in the country since 1997, no healthcare results for lending and investments have been disclosed sinc... more