UID:
edoccha_9958114684002883
Format:
xv, 186 pages :
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illustrations ;
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28 cm.
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9786610084753
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1-280-08475-8
Series Statement:
World Bank e-Library.
Note:
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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Intro -- CONTENTS -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Key Messages and Policy Highlights -- Statistical Highlights -- Abbreviations -- Overview: Rising to the Challenges -- PART I The Millennium Development Goal Challenges -- CHAPTER 1 Backdrop to the Millennium Development Goals -- CHAPTER 2 The Millennium Development Goals for Health: Progress and Prospects -- CHAPTER 3 Effective Interventions Exist-They Need to Reach More People -- PART II Rising to the Challenges -- CHAPTER 4 Extra Government Health Spending Is Necessary but Not Sufficient-Health Sector Strengthening Is Also Required, and Spending Needs to Be Better Targeted -- CHAPTER 5 Households-Key but Underrated Actors in the Health Sector -- CHAPTER 6 Improving Service Delivery -- CHAPTER 7 Tackling Human Resource and Pharmaceutical Constraints -- CHAPTER 8 Strengthening Core Public Health Functions -- CHAPTER 9 Financing Additional Spending for the Millennium Development Goals-In a Sustainable Way -- CHAPTER 10 Applying the Lessons of Development Assistance for Health -- Appendixes -- APPENDIX A Data and Methods -- APPENDIX B Why Tracking Progress toward the Health Goals Isn't Easy -- Index -- Boxes -- Box 1 The health-related Millennium Development Goals -- Box 1.1 Worlds apart:The poor die earlier -- Box 1.2 The promising (and challenging) array of health-related partnerships -- Box 2.1 Why the decline in maternal mortality is slowing -- Box 3.1 Low coverage of HIV/AIDS interventions -- Box 4.1 Coupling targeting with institutional innovation through social investment funds -- Box 4.2 Marginal budgeting for bottlenecks -- Box 5.1 Key family practices for the production of child health and nutrition -- Box 5.2 Why people can go hungry when food is plentiful -- Box 5.3 Social solidarity in Côte d'Ivoire -- Box 5.4 Blanket subsidies often benefit the better off most.
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Box 5.5 Vouchers for sex workers in Nicaragua -- Box 5.6 Increasing coverage of key interventions through demand-side incentives -- Box 5.7 Helping poor women protect themselves-India's SEWA -- Box 5.8 Working with the private sector to improve hygiene behaviors -- Box 5.9 Radio dramas to promote contraception -- Box 5.10 Argentina's water privatization program saved young lives -- Box 6.1 The changing mix of cure and care: Who treats what-and where? -- Box 6.2 Who delivers which care for the Millennium Development Goals for health? -- Box 6.3 Different management styles, different countries-but just miles apart -- Box 6.4 Management in India's Tamil Nadu Integrated Nutrition Program -- Box 6.5 Innovative and effective management of public health workers in Ceara, Brazil -- Box 6.6 Contracting health services in Cambodia, Guatemala, and Pakistan -- Box 7.1 Ghana's loss of health sector workers -- Box 7.2 The devastating impact of HIV/AIDS on the health workforce -- Box 7.3 Competing with the private sector in Bolivia -- Box 7.4 What do health workers in India want most? -- Box 7.5 Lack of drugs threatens the Millennium Development Goals -- Box 7.6 Inappropriate or "irrational" drug use -- Box 7.7 The problem of counterfeit drugs -- Box 7.8 Do we know how affordable drugs really are? -- Box 7.9 High drug costs in Vietnam deter use and cause impoverishment -- Box 7.10 Perverse provider incentives and tuberculosis drugs in Georgia -- Box 7.11 Drug subsidies and drug insurance: Different countries, different policies -- Box 7.12 The attractions of pooled procurement -- Box 7.13 The Accelerating Access Initiative for antiretroviral drugs -- Box 7.14 Global public-private partnerships to accelerate the introduction of new vaccines -- Box 8.1 Increasing the supply of and demand for insecticide-treated bednets.
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Box 8.2 Reducing communicable diseases through disease surveillance in Brazil -- Box 8.3 Monitoring progress toward the Millennium Development Goals in the Dominican Republic -- Box 8.4 Core public health functions and the case for public management -- Box 8.5 Strengthening core public health functions to combat HIV/AIDS -- Box 9.1 Raising tax levels in the developing world-hard but doable -- Box 10.1 The importance of country commitment: How Bangladesh and Thailand have fared in reducing malnutrition -- Box 10.2 Helping eradicate polio through IDA credit buy-downs -- Box 10.3 Improving performance of the health sector in Guinea -- Box 10.4 Increasing health sector spending and immunization coverage by reforming the budget process in Mauritania -- Box 10.5 Harmonizing, monitoring, and evaluating HIV/AIDS programs -- Box 10.6 Key actions to accelerate progress on the health, nutrition, and population Millennium Goals:The Ottawa consensus -- Box 10.7 Summary of recommendations for action from the High-Level Forum on the Millennium Development Goals for Health held -- Figures -- Figure 1 The poorest countries suffer the highest burdens of premature mortality and malnutrition -- Figure 2 Faster economic growth and other changes outside the health sector will help move regions toward the targets, but in -- Figure 3 Full use of existing interventions would reduce maternal deaths dramatically -- Figure 4 Paths to better health, nutrition, and population outcomes -- Figure 5 What makes service providers accountable -- Figure 6 What health workers in Andhra Pradesh want from their jobs-and whether they get it -- Figure 2.1 Progress on malnutrition, under-five mortality, and maternal mortality, by region and income -- Figure 2.2 People on track to hit malnutrition, under-five mortality, and maternal mortality targets.
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Figure 2.3 Countries on track to hit malnutrition, under-five mortality, maternal mortality targets -- Figure 2.4 Some countries are reducing malnutrition quickly. In others malnutrition has fallen less slowly, and in some it has increased. -- Figure 2.5 How the poor have fared on malnutrition reductions-absolutely and compared with the less poor -- Figure 2.6 How the poor have fared on under-five mortality reductions-absolutely and compared with the less poor -- Figure 2.7 Child mortality-the pace of decline is too slow, and in the developing world it's getting even slower -- Figure 2.8 Child mortality-percentage of countries with a faster rate of decline in the 1990s than in the 1980s -- Figure 2.9 Trends in HIV prevalence among pregnant women in Uganda, 1990-2001 -- Figure 2.10 Tuberculosis DOTS detection rates, selected countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1995-2001 -- Figure 2.11 Tuberculosis DOTS cure rates, selected countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1994-2000 -- Figure 2.12 Past performance is not necessarily a good predictor of future performance: under-five mortality -- Figure 2.13 Growth rates of per capita income: actual 1990-2000 and forecasts for 2001-15 -- Figure 2.14 Girls catching up with boys at secondary school level-growth needed in the share of female population over age 15 who have completed secondary education to eliminate the secondary education gender gap -- Figure 2.15 In all but two regions access to drinking water needs to grow faster to achieve the water target -- Figure 3.1 Why children die -- Figure 3.2 The arsenal of effective interventions against childhood killers -- Figure 3.3 Interventions for reducing maternal mortality -- Figure 3.4 Low-income countries lag behind on key preventive interventions for maternal and child health.
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Figure 3.5 Use of key preventive interventions for maternal and child health is lower in some regions than others -- Figure 3.6 Some children with acute respiratory infections receive treatment-others don't -- Figure 3.7 Proportion of children age 12-23 mos who received full basic immunization coverage- poorest 20 percent vs. population as a whole -- Figure 3.8 Use trends for household-delivered and professionally delivered interventions -- Figure 3.9 Full use of existing interventions would dramatically cut child deaths -- Figure 3.10 Full use of existing interventions would dramatically cut maternal deaths -- Figure 4.1 CPIA scores across Bank regions -- Figure 4.2 The contributions of faster growth of government health spending in countries with good policies and institutions -- Figure 4.3 Paths to better health, nutrition, and population outcomes -- Figure 5.1 Who gets subsidies? -- Figure 5.2 Under Bolivia's National Maternal and Child Insurance Program key maternal health interventions rose fastest among the poor -- Figure 5.3 Poor women have less of a say in spending their own money -- Figure 5.4 Fewer poor women have completed the fifth grade -- Figure 7.1 Doctors across the world in the 1990s-how many and how much change -- Figure 7.2 Doctors across Sub-Saharan Africa in the 1990s-how many and how much change -- Figure 7.3 Stocks and flows in human resources -- Figure 9.1 Government health spending is higher in richer countries, but private health spending is higher in low-income countries -- Figure 9.2 Some countries spend considerably less than expected on government health programs-and some spend more -- Figure 9.3 Health absorbs a higher share of government spending, and general revenues absorb a higher share of GDP in richer.
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Figure 9.4 Small health shares and low government revenues cause some low-income countries to spend less than they can afford to on health.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8213-5767-0
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-4175-2618-1
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