Health Systems & Financing The World Bank's Health Systems & Financing (HSF) group is part of the Human Development Network's Health, Nutrition & Population Unit. The HSF group works on a number of issues related to health systems, including health finance, health insurance, human resources for health, pharmaceuticals, public/private partnerships and hospital management. HSF supports Bank projects through the development and dissemintation of knowledge and technical assistance.
HIV/AIDS AIDS is the only disease that strikes mainly prime-age adults -- parents, workers, teachers, health professionals, entrepreneurs, rich and poor. Higher funding levels, better data, and greater understanding of what works are helping countries to prevent new infections, treat people with HIV, and mitigate the impact on families and communities, but much remains to be done to reach global goals.
HNP Millennium Development Goals The first seven Millennium Development Goals are directly or indirectly linked with the activities of the health, nutrition, and population sector in the World Bank, either as health and nutrition status indicators or as determinants of health outcomes.
Nutrition Nearly a half of child mortality in low-income countries can be linked to malnutrition. The World Bank supports a multisectoral approach to improving nutrition that targets the poor, especially young children and their mothers. To reach these groups, the Bank emphasizes two strategies -- First, community based programs that focus on the "window of opportunity between pre-pregnancy and the first 2 years of life" to improve nutrition; and second, micronutrient supplementation and fortification programs. These interventions are implemented through a multi-sectoral approach that includes agriculture and rural development, food policy reforms, gender, social protection programs and innovative demand-side strategies such as conditional cash transfers and involvement of the private sector.
Population/Reproductive Health The World Bank has supported population and reproductive health activities since 1970, and has helped to finance more than 192 population and reproductive health projects in 83 countries. Today the Bank and its client countries, together with many other donors, are using new approaches to improving women's health and helping couples to plan their families. These include linking population policy more closely to poverty reduction and human development, and adopting a reproductive health approach that integrates family planning, maternal health, and prevention and treatment of sexually transmitted diseases, including HIV/AIDS. The World Bank has committed $4.2 billion to support reproductive health programs around the world.
Poverty & Health The purpose of the Poverty & Health website is to introduce work in these areas recently undertaken or currently under way at the World Bank, in the hope that the information will prove useful to policy makers and analysts outside as well as within the Bank.
Public Health The roles of the public health cluster in the Bank are to: manage and disseminate knowledge on public health and public health functions; conduct analytic work related to public health functions; engage in global health initiatives that will help countries make measurable progress towards their HNP goals; build capacity for poverty reduction, and; improve Bank and client performance.
Child Health Child health is an important part of the corporate agenda of the World Bank. We strive to improve the health of all children through our work in the Health, Nutrition and Population (HNP) sector and other sectors that affect the health of children.
Malaria The World Bank is active in the Roll Back Malaria Partnership, with country programs and policy dialogue, multi-sectoral approaches, involvement of the private sector and research community; and increased disbursements for malaria control activities.
Mental Health Mental and neurological disorders are prevalent. According to the World Health Report (WHR) 2001, neuropsychiatric disorders account for 12% of the Global Burden of Disease, second only to infectious disorders (23%), and are bigger burden than AIDS, TB and malaria combined (10%). In the WDR 1993, four of the top ten causes of disability were due to mental and neurological disorders. Depression was ranked fourth in 1993, and is projected to be second in 2020 and will be number one for women.
Onchocerciasis (Riverblindness) Riverblindness-an historic scourge affecting most of sub-Saharan Africa-has been successfully attacked by a large international partnership over the last 30 years.
Road Safety This website covers institutional responsibility of road safety, the development of a road safety action plan, raising awareness and understanding of road safety problems, road crash data systems, road safety education and training, traffic safety legislation, enforcement of traffic laws, and monitoring and evaluation of the effectiveness of road safety activities.
School Health Improved Learning through better Health, Nutrition and Education for the School-Aged Child
Tobacco This site is for researchers, policy-makers, advocates and others, as they choose and implement effective tobacco control measures.
Tuberculosis The World Bank is committed to responding to the global tuberculosis (TB) epidemic and does so through policy dialogue and advice, country-specific lending for health system strengthening and disease control, analytic work, and involvement in global partnerships, including the Stop TB Partnership.
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