From Hesitancy to Confidence: Building Trust in COVID-19 Vaccines
Making COVID-19 vaccines accessible is crucial. It’s just as important to ensure that as many people as possible feel confident enough to take them.
Getting Deaths Right
A policy brief from the Asia Pacific Observatory on Health Systems and Policies is helping Asian countries capture in a more appropriate manner causes of death and disease burden.
Getting Ready for the Post-2015 SDGs: Join the E-Dialogue
The new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are expected to bring a stronger focus on longer-term durability of development gains as opposed to the current approach which sees decision-making targeted at the shorter term. At present, businesses main focus is annual balance sheets; for development organizations it is annual results reporting; and for democracies there's cyclical elections.
Global Population Getting Fatter, Sicker – A Call for Action
Non-communicable diseases act as key barriers to poverty alleviation and sustainable development, and we have to start with ourselves by making healthy lifestyle choices everyday.
Going Digital to Boost Immunization Coverage
Digital health tools offer much-needed solutions to improve the delivery of immunization programs.
Greying Asia: A Case of Increasing the Retirement Age?
The significant increase in life expectancy and decrease in fertility rates in Asia present a challenge due to the lack of support systems for the aging population. We need to address these demographic changes, including revising policies like the retirement age to better support the elderly.
Health Care Must Be Affordable and Accessible, But Also High Quality
Universal health coverage must be high quality to improve patients’ health outcomes
Health Should Not Pay the Price for Infrastructure Development in Asia
Health impact assessments can seize the opportunity to attain positive health outcomes that would otherwise not happen, as we are seeing in the Greater Mekong Subregion.
Health Solutions That Work for Indian Slums
The National Urban Health Mission aims to provide poor urban communities access to quality healthcare.
Helping People in Asia Demand Better Public Services
The poor in Asia and the Pacific are most in need of public services but often have few tools to demand these vital programs from their governments.