Health at a Glance: Asia/Pacific 2014
Measuring Progress towards Universal Health Coverage
This third edition of Health at a Glance Asia/Pacific presents a set of key indicators of health status, the determinants of health, health care resources and utilisation, health care expenditure and financing and health care quality across 27 Asia/Pacific countries and economies. Drawing on a wide range of data sources, it builds on the format used in previous editions of Health at a Glance, and gives readers a better understanding of the factors that affect the health of populations and the performance of health systems in these countries and economies.
Each of the indicators is presented in a user-friendly format, consisting of charts illustrating variations across countries and over time, brief descriptive analyses highlighting the major findings conveyed by the data, and a methodological box on the definition of the indicator and any limitations in data comparability. An annex provides additional information on the demographic context in which health systems operate. It is a joint OECD and WHO/WPRO and WHO/SEARO publication.
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HIV/AIDS
Although the first cases of AIDS in Asia were reported in 1984 and 1985, the more extensive spread of HIV began late compared with the rest of the world, occurring in -Cambodia, India, Myanmar and Thailand in the early 1990s (Ruxrungtham et al., 2004). Asia is second only to sub-Saharan Africa as the region with the greatest number of people with HIV. The UN set a MDG target to halt the spread of HIV by 2015.
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