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Pandemic Recovery in Urban Settings: Planning for the Unplanned

WEBUrbanisation has intensified many of the most pressing global challenges over the last few decades. Today, responding to the COVID-19 pandemic has become …

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WEBAgainst this backdrop, this blog examines the gaps in the ongoing pandemic control programme and outlines ways to bridge these gaps so that more lives could be …

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An Appetite for Health: Regulating Sri Lanka’s Food Environments …

WEBIndeed, NCDs – primarily caused by poor eating habits and inactive lifestyles –, claim the largest number of Sri Lankan lives, accounting for 83% of all deaths, …

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WEBThe Institute of Policy Studies of Sri Lanka (IPS) together with the Sri Lanka Medical Association (SLMA) and the Center for Policy Impact in Global Health (CPIGH) …

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Sri Lanka’s Health Financing Challenge: Why Smarter Spending is Key

WEBSri Lanka’s public health spending as a share of GDP, at around 1.5%, is low by international standards. This is compounded by inefficiencies in fund administration …

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No School, No Meals: Sri Lanka’s Battle against Child Malnutrition

WEBAlthough, Sri Lanka performs well in most health indicators, child nutrition remains a major issue. According to the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) 2016, …

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INSTITUTE OF POLICY STUDIES OF SRI LANKA

WEBInstitute of policy studies Sri Lanka. Research. The substantive focus of the Institute’s research programme is to provide an integrated analysis of development challenges …

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Breaking the Silence on Depression: Challenging Task for Sri Lanka

WEBAs per global health estimates of the WHO for 2015, there were around 802,321 reported cases of depression in Sri Lanka. The prevalence of depressive …

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Controlling NCDs in Sri Lanka in the Age of a Pandemic

WEBAccording to the World Health Organisation (WHO), noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) accounted for 83% of all deaths in Sri Lanka in 2016.Even more …

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Analysis of Private Health Insurance in Sri Lanka: Findings and …

WEBPrivate health insurance (also known as voluntary health insurance) has been available in Sri Lanka for three decades. While it has not been of major importance as a financing …

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RESET Alcohol Initiative in Sri Lanka

WEBRESET Alcohol Initiative in Sri Lanka. Fiscal policy scenarios have shown that taxation and pricing policies are cost-effective ways to reduce the negative health and social impacts …

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Sri Lanka National Health Accounts

WEBSri Lanka National Health Accounts (SLNHA) provides estimates of national health expenditures by source, by functional use and by provider on an aggregate basis. …

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Food Insecurity and Nutritional Gap in Sri Lanka

WEBShe further noted that, in Sri Lanka, malnutrition in all its forms is an issue across the population, while the country is hit with a triple burden: under nutrition, over …

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Bilesha Weeraratne Attends the Global Humanitarian Policy Forum …

WEBBilesha Weeraratne Attends the Global Humanitarian Policy Forum in New York 13 December 2019 New York, USA. IPS Research Fellow and Head of Migration …

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WEBTax evasion – in all sizes, shapes, and forms – is a reality that exists in Sri Lanka. It has been cited as one of the many reasons for the declining tax-to-GDP ratio …

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Healthy Public Policies Begin with Health in All Policies

WEBMost recently, the concept of Health in All Policies (HiAP), was initially introduced by Finland in 2006 [5]. Subsequently, HiAP was recommended as a …

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RESPONDING TO THE CHALLENGE OF AN AGEING …

WEBThis leads to high out-of-pocket health spending by households. However, the National Elderly Health Policy (NEHP) identifies long-term elderly care as a priority area and …

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WEBAlmost 61% of its households fall into the poorest category, while in the urban and rural sectors this was at 8% and 20% respectively (see Figure 3). Households’ poor …

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WEBIn this second article marking World Health Day (7th April), Samanthi Bandara of the Health Economic Policy Unit of the IPS argues that as Sri Lanka …

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Sri Lanka the Economy Report 2016

WEBSri Lanka's total expenditure on health (TEH) -including all expenditure on personal health services, community (public health and preventive) health services, and gross capital …

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Assessing Food Environments, Population Diets and COVID …

WEBIncrease durability of Canned or bottled F&V, group 1 foods/ modify sensory qualities. salted/sugared nuts and seeds, salted, cured, or smoked meats, canned fish, cheeses, …

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