The World Bank and world health

The World Health Organisation, the World Bank, and the Transition from International to Global Health

Introduction Global health has been defined as the ‘consideration of the health needs of the people of the whole planet above the concerns of particular nations’ (Brown et al. 2006: 62). It differs from the earlier concept of international health, which refers primarily to diseaseand epidemiccontrol across national boundaries (i.e. ‘inter’ + ‘national’), carried out by the governments of sovere...

Universal health coverage, health systems strengthening, and the World Bank

T he sustainable development goals (SDGs) formally promote universal health coverage as a key objective for the global health community. This focus on universal health coverage arose both from a desire to maintain the health gains achieved by the millennium development goals and from criticism that those goals were short term in nature and narrowly focused on disease specific approaches. 2 On 1...

The World Bank

Welcome to the 42nd issue of the World Bank Trade Research Electronic Newsletter, a periodic E-mail publication containing abstracts of recent trade working papers, publications and other works. Additional information on the Bank’s Trade Research Team activities can be found on the recent redesigned World Bank Trade Research website (HUhttp://www.econ.worldbank.org/programs/tradeUH). This provi...

The World Bank

The World Bank

World Bank Working Papers are published to communicate the results of the Bank's work to the development community with the least possible delay. The manuscript of this paper therefore has not been prepared in accordance with the procedures appropriate to formally-edited texts. Some sources cited in this paper may be informal documents that are not readily available. The findings, interpretatio...