Category Archives: South-East Asia

The potential of health literacy to address the health related UN sustainable development goal 3 (SDG3) in Nepal: a rapid review

Authors: Shyam Sundar Budhathoki, Paras K. Pokharel, Suvajee Good, Sajani Limbu, Meika Bhattachan and Richard H. Osborne Source: BMC Health Services Research. BMC series – open, inclusive and trusted201717:237 Abstract / Resumen Background: Health literacy has been linked to health outcomes across population groups around the world. Nepal, a low income country, experiences the double burden of highly prevalent communicable as well as non-communicable […]


MONITORING HEALTH DETERMINANTS WITH AN EQUITY FOCUS The importance of intersectoral factors in promoting equity-oriented universal health coverage: a multilevel analysis of social determinants affecting neonatal infant and under-five mortality in Bangladesh

Global Health Action, [S.l.], v. 9, feb. 2016
Published online: 12 February 2016


Prioritizing action on health inequities in cities: An evaluation of Urban Health Equity Assessment and Response Tool (Urban HEART) in 15 cities from Asia and Africa

Social Science & Medicine, Volume 145, November 2015, Pages 237–242


The challenge of extending universal coverage to non-poor informal workers in low- and middle-income countries in Asia

Asia Pacific Observatory on Health Systems and Policies’ policy brief, v. 4, n. 3 2015.


Equity and Noncommunicable Disease Reduction under the Sustainable Development Goals

PLoS Med 12(9):e1001872.
Published: September 8, 2015


People’s Republic of China health system review

Health Systems in Transition, Vol. 5 No. 7 2015
Published online: September 2015


Millennium Development Goal Four and Child Health Inequities in Indonesia: A Systematic Review of the Literature

Julia Schröders , Stig Wall, Hari Kusnanto, Nawi Ng
PLoS ONE 10(5): e0123629.
Published online: 5 May 2015


Policy Brief: Quality of Care – What are effective policy options for governments in low- and middle-income countries to improve and regulate the quality of ambulatory care?

The World Health Organization – Regional Office for the Western Pacific
Asia Pacific Observatory on Health Systems and Policies


Call for Abstracts: ICOPH 2015 – International Confererence on Public Health: Promoting Global Health Trhough Equitable Access to Health System

Deadline for submision of abstracts / Fecha limite para somision de los resumenes: 15 March 2015


Universal health coverage in ‘One ASEAN’: are migrants included?

Global Health Action, 2015, v. 8
Published online: 24 January 2015