Investing in the Best Buys : A Review of the Health, Nutrition, and Population Portfolio, FY1993-99

This review of the "best buys" in the health, nutrition, and population portfolio, FY93-99, shows that content, as well as process must receive attention in health systems development, in order to achieve increased access to quality health services. The report suggest that significant gains can be made, and measured within lending, by increasing efforts to identify, and invest in the best buys. It describes the Bank's mixed lending for the best buys, ranging from direct support to public health, and clinical services (i.e., investment in disease control programs), to health systems strengthening (i.e., investment in surveillance, and pharmaceutical systems, managerial and technical capacity building) that indirectly support delivery of basic services. Recommendations suggest linking the guidelines of this review to the knowledge management system, and training in basic public health, and Poverty Reduction Strategy work. Moreover, an in-depth review of data at the regional level, could explicitly define options for inclusion of best buys in project implementation, based on case studies that show the role of process, and content in selecting, and setting priorities for best buys.

Bibliographic Details

Main Authors:	Claeson, Mariam, Mawji, Tazim, Walker, Christopher
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2000-12-14
Subjects:	ACUTE RESPIRATORY INFECTIONS, AIDS PREVENTION, ALCOHOL, ALGORITHM, ANTENATAL CARE, BASIC HEALTH SERVICES, CARE SERVICES, CASE MANAGEMENT, CHILD BEARING, CHILD DEVELOPMENT, CHILD HEALTH, CHILD HEALTH SERVICES, CHILD MORTALITY, CHILDBIRTH, CLINICAL SERVICES, COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, CONDOM PROMOTION, CONTRACEPTIVE METHODS, COUNSELING, DEWORMING, DIPHTHERIA, DISEASE CONTROL, EARLY CHILD DEVELOPMENT, ECONOMIC ANALYSIS, FAMILY PLANNING, FAMILY PLANNING COMPONENT, FAMILY PLANNING SERVICES, FEASIBILITY STUDIES, HEALTH, HEALTH CARE, HEALTH CARE SYSTEMS, HEALTH DELIVERY, HEALTH EDUCATION, HEALTH FACILITY, HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEMS, HEALTH INTERVENTIONS, HEALTH OUTCOMES, HEALTH POLICIES, HEALTH PROGRAMS, HEALTH PROJECTS, HEALTH REFORM, HEALTH SECTOR, HEALTH SERVICES, HEALTH STATUS, HEALTH SYSTEM, HEALTH SYSTEMS, HEPATITIS B, HIGH FERTILITY, IMMUNIZATION, IMMUNIZATION COVERAGE, INCOME, INFANT MORTALITY, INFANT MORTALITY RATE, INTERVENTION, IRON, LOW-INCOME COUNTRIES, MALARIA, MALARIA TREATMENT, MALNUTRITION, MANAGEMENT OF PREGNANCY, MANAGERS, MATERNAL HEALTH, MATERNAL MORTALITY, MATERNAL MORTALITY RATE, MEASLES, MORTALITY, MORTALITY RATE, NUTRITION, NUTRITION INTERVENTION, OBSTETRIC CARE, PARTNERSHIP, PATIENTS, POLIO, POLIO VACCINE, PREGNANCIES, PREGNANCY, PRENATAL CARE, PRIMARY CARE, PRIMARY HEALTH CARE, PUBLIC HEALTH, REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH, REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH CARE, REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH SERVICES, SCHOOL HEALTH, SCHOOLS, SERVICE DELIVERY, SERVICE DELIVERY MECHANISMS, SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES, STDS, TETANUS, TOBACCO, TOBACCO CONTROL, USE OF CONTRACEPTIVES, YOUTH NUTRITION POLICY, BEST PRACTICES, PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION, LENDING OPERATIONS, HEALTH CARE PLANNING, NUTRITION PROGRAMS, POPULATION PROJECTS, HEALTH CARE QUALITY, ACCESS TO HEALTH CARE, INVESTMENTS, TECHNICAL KNOWLEDGE, MANAGEMENT DEVELOPMENT, CAPACITY BUILDING, BASIC SERVICES, GUIDELINES, KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT, TRAINING ASSISTANCE, POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGIES,
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2000/12/1614783/investing-best-buys-review-health-nutrition-population-portfolio-fy1993-99 https://hdl.handle.net/10986/13631
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