Healthy Development : The World Bank Strategy for Health, Nutrition, and Population Results

by World Bank

• ISBN13: 9780821371930
• ISBN10: 0821371932
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-08-01
• Publisher: World Bank

Summary

'Healthy Development: The World Bank Strategy for Health, Nutrition, and Population Results' updates the Bank#xE2;#xAC;"s contribution to improving health outcomes, including the 2015 Millennium Development Goals, at a time when new and existing multilateral organizations, bilateral partners, and foundations are increasing their commitment to global health. After an extensive consultative process with governments and global partners, including civil society organizations and bilateral and multilateral organizations, the World Bank#xE2;#xAC;"s new health, nutrition, and population strategy aims to help developing countries strengthen their health systems and improve the health and well-being of millions of the world#xE2;#xAC;"s poorest people, boost economic growth, reduce poverty caused by catastrophic illness, and provide the structural #xE2;#xAC;Sglue#xE2;#xAC; that supports multiple health-related programs within countries.By renewing the Bank#xE2;#xAC;"s focus on achieving results, this new strategy seeks to strengthen monitoringand evaluation systems in Bank programs and in partner countries and calls for a greater link between financing and achieving results on the ground. Achievements in health, nutrition, and population have important implications for overall country fiscal policy and country competitiveness and, ultimately, the Bank#xE2;#xAC;"s mission to reduce poverty. This book will be a useful resource for policy makers and others working in these areas in the international arena.

Table of Contents

Introduction and overview	p. 11
Opportunities and challenges in the new international environment in health	p. 31
Bank contribution and challenges in implementing the 1997 HNP strategy	p. 37
How can the bank better serve client countries in the new environment? : bank comparative advantages for HNP results	p. 47
New bank strategic objectives : what HNP results?	p. 57
New bank strategic directions : how should the bank support client-country efforts?	p. 69
Implications for priority health, nutrition, and population programs and interventions	p. 83
Implementing new bank HNP strategic directions	p. 99
HNP hub action plan and regional action plans	p. 109
Acknowledgments	p. 135
The new global health architecture	p. 145
The World Bank HNP results framework	p. 156
Multisectoral constraints assessment for health outcomes	p. 169
What is a health system?	p. 173
World Bank partners in health, nutrition, and population	p. 179
HNP contributions to combating HIV/AIDS : background paper to the World Bank HNP strategy	p. 183
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