| During the past few years, both the Papua New Guinea (PNG) and Sri Lanka have initiated efforts to extend healthcare coverage to their rural population and to improve the quality of their healthcare services. However, while Sri Lanka has almost reached the Millennium Development Goals in health, PNG is still very far behind. Comparative findings show that Sri Lanka outperformed PNG in a number of areas. Sri Lanka had adequate funding, higher quality of governance, proper implementation of decentralization, and ample development of the human resources and management needed for effective delivery of quality health services-all major determinants of success. PNG's and Sri Lanka's experiences provide useful comparisons and hold valuable lessons for developing countries attempting to scale up health sector interventions to achieve the MDGs.
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Source: Shanghai Poverty Conference, Thematic Case Studies.
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