Future policy choices for the health sector in Asia

Veronica Walford, Mark Pearson, Ravi Rannan Eliya and Tharanga Fernando, March 2006

To what extent health services in Asia are meeting the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)? What are the options for scaling up delivery and for financing health service expansion? This paper attempts to answer these questions and concludes with a suggested action plan for Asian countries and their development partners.

The paper was prepared on behalf of the DFID Health Resource Centre for the 'Asia 2015: Promoting Growth, Ending Poverty' conference (London, 6-7 March 2006), which brought together key decision-makers from Asia and across the world to learn from Asia's success, to identify future challenges and solutions, and to build new alliances to fight poverty.