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    Who Will Pay for Asia's Double Burden? Innovative Financing is Needed to Address an Unprecedented Burden of Communicable and Noncommunicable Diseases

    Asian Development Bank | November 2011
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    The 11th edition of Development Asia looks into the double burden of communicable and noncommunicable diseases in Asia and the Pacific. Asian and Pacific countries are facing unprecedented challenges related to health care. While wealthier countries tend to suffer from noncommunicable ailments, such as cancer and diabetes, and poorer countries from communicable diseases, like malaria and dengue, many parts of Asia and the Pacific are plagued by both. This edition of Development Asia explores the double burden of disease that political leaders in the region are grappling to address. At the root of this problem is health financing. Simply put: how do governments and their private sector partners provide solutions that keep the poor from suffering catastrophic health care costs?
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    Asian Development Bank. 2011. Who Will Pay for Asia's Double Burden? Innovative Financing is Needed to Address an Unprecedented Burden of Communicable and Noncommunicable Diseases. http://hdl.handle.net/11540/1329. License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.
    Keywords
    Health System Developments
    Urban Health Services
    Rural Health Services
    Health Service Management
    Health Care Quality
    Health Aspects of Poverty
    Child Health
    Health aid
    Medical Statistics
    Child Nutrition
    Health Costs
    Medical Economics
    Medical and health care industry
    Delivery of health care
    Prevention of disease
    Nutrition and state
    Sanitation systems
    Health status indicators
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