Learning Curves: ADB's Policy for the Health Sector
Asian Development Bank | February 2007
Abstract
The Asia and Pacific region is home to 690 million people living on incomes of less than $1 per day. They account for more than two thirds of the worldʹs poor. Most live in areas where health services are inadequate or nonexistent. Poverty leads to poor nutrition and inadequate access to health care, which cause health to deteriorate. In turn, poor health prevents the poor from being productive members of society. This is a vicious cycle of impoverishment. Health is also a key input to economic development: good health enhances the productivity of the workforce and increases the attractiveness of the economy to domestic and foreign investors. The Millennium Development Goals emphasize the many dimensions of poverty and explicitly recognize that health interventions can reduce poverty. ADBʹs Policy for the Health Sector, approved in 1999, aims to provide direction to ADBʹs operations, inform developing member countries about ADBʹs priorities, and assist them to identify priorities and strategies for achieving them.
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Asian Development Bank. 2007. Learning Curves: ADB's Policy for the Health Sector. © Asian Development Bank. http://hdl.handle.net/11540/3358. 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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