Regional cooperation in achieving better health outcomes in South Asia
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Date
2024-06
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Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD)
Abstract
South Asia is among the regions with the highest maternal and child mortality rates,
the lowest life expectancy at birth, and the highest incidence of infectious diseases
like TB. The government spending on the health sector has also been below 1 per
cent for many countries in the South Asian region making it more challenging to
achieve Universal Health Coverage (UHC).
Despite relatively poor performance in health outcomes at the regional level, the
performance has been somewhat uneven across the region, and country-level factors
that have led to such differential outcomes also vary from one country to another