Government Expenditure on Health in Lao PDR : Overall Trends and Findings from a Health Center Survey

World Bank Group

World Bank, Vientiane

关键词: health financing;    health outcomes;    government spending;    health centers;   

RP-ID  :  107280

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: World Bank Open Knowledge Repository

【 摘 要 】

This policy note provides an overview ofgovernment health financing in the Lao People’s DemocraticRepublic (PDR), with an added focus on health centerfinancing. The note summarizes overall trends in healthoutcomes and government health financing over 2000-2014 andanalyzes trends in planned and realized government budgetaryhealth spending data covering fiscal years (FYs) 2000/01 to2013/14 and planned expenditures for FYs 2014/15, updating aprevious assessment conducted in 2012.1 In addition, thisnote summarizes findings from health center financing datacollected as part of the UFGE-CNP facility survey whichcollected information from a nationally-representativesample of 120 health centers in 2013-14. This policy note isone of a series designed to disseminate findings of theWorld Bank’s program of analytic and advisory activities forhealth in Lao PDR.