While the most important factors associated with facility-based delivery (FBD) have been
explored within individual countries in Africa, no systematic review has explored the factors …

Summary As part of Disease Control Priorities 3rd Edition, the World Bank will publish a
volume on Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health that identifies essential cost …

Universal coverage of essential interventions would reduce neonatal deaths by an
estimated 71%, benefit women and children after the first month, and reduce stillbirths …

This book is about 24 developing countries that have embarked on the journey towards
universal health coverage (UHC) following a bottom-up approach, with a special focus on …

Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) were previously considered to only affect high-income
countries. However, they now account for a very large burden in terms of both mortality and …

Family planning improves health, reduces poverty, and empowers women. Yet, today, more
than 200 million women in the developing world want to avoid pregnancy but are not using a …

• These packages of interventions are delivered through three key service platforms:
community workers and health posts, primary health centers, and hospitals (first level and …

The private for-profit sector's prominence in health-care delivery, and concern about its
failures to deliver social benefit, has driven a search for interventions to improve the sector's …

According to the World Health Organization (WHO) and United Nations (UN), adolescents
are defined as those aged 10–19. However, for this report, we present data for 15–19-year …

Background More than half of the global population is not effectively covered by any type of
social protection benefit and women's coverage lags behind. Most girls and boys living in …