Stakeholder learning for health sector reform in Lao PDR

Evasion of “mandatory” social health insurance for the formal sector: evidence from Lao PDR

BACKGROUND In the last decade, almost every low- or middle-income country in the world has expressed support for universal health coverage (UHC). While at the beginning of the UHC movement, country strategies focused on increasing access to the formal sector as the first step of UHC, there is now consensus that countries should cover the entire population, with particular attention to covering ...

District health programmes and health-sector reform: case study in the Lao People's Democratic Republic.

The Lao People's Democratic Republic (Lao PDR) is classified by the World Bank as a low-income country under stress. Development partners have sought to utilize effective aid instruments to help countries classified in this way achieve the Millennium Development Goals; these aid instruments include sector-wide approaches (SWAps) that support decentralized district health systems and seek to avo...

Periodontal Disease in Lao Pdr

The objective of this study was to evaluate the prevalence of periodontal diseases in Savannakhet Province, Lao PDR. This survey was conducted 14 years after the country reformed its economic structure towards the free market. Thirty villages were picked by simple random sampling from a total of 1,560 villages. Two thousand four hundred and fifty-three individuals, aged twelve and over, were in...

Dengue infection in Lao PDR.

Epidemiology of dengue infection in Lao PDR Dengue disease is widely distributed in the whole country of Lao PDR, which consists of seven provinces. There has been a significant burden of dengue diseases over the past 4 years (Fig 1) (Khampapongpane et al, 2014). In 2010, there is a high burden of disease covering the whole country of Lao PDR with more than 400 cases per 100,000 population in m...

A Survey of Oral Health in Vientiane, Lao PDR