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Welcome to the Institute for Health Policy!

The Institute for Health Policy is an independent research institution, and a regional centre of excellence for health policy research, working on its own, in partnerships and with sponsors, to improve health and social systems in Sri Lanka and the wider region, by supporting, encouraging and informing policy change, through quality research, analysis and training.

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07 Jan 2010 - Dr. A.T.P.L. Abeykoon appointed member of UNFPA Asia and Pacific Regional Programme Advisory Group ...
15 Dec 2009 - Dr. A.T.P.L. Abeykoon, advisor at the Regional Consultation on a Strategic Framework for Active Healthy Ageing in the South-East Asia Region ...
12 Dec 2009 - Shanaz Saleem awarded gold medal for best paper at the South Asian Economics Student’s Meet (SAESM) ...
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LATEST PUBLICATIONS

01 Oct 2009 - Guidelines for improving the comparability and availability of private health expenditures ...
01 Oct 2009 - Public Hospital Inpatient Discharge Survey 2005 ...
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children IHP research in the Maldives

With the rapid gains that Maldives has made in recent years in both economic and social development, Maldivian policy-makers are increasingly facing new challenges. IHP has been making its contribution to more informed policy in the country, by working in several areas of health and social policy, ranging from tackling the challenge of NCDs to the problems of social protection and inclusion.
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Chinese Health Officials Study Sri Lanka's Maternal and Child Mortality Reduction

Sri Lanka's achievements in achieving rapid and sustained reductions in maternal and child mortality provide a potential model for other developing countries. Working with MoH counterparts, IHP organised a tailored programme of visits for senior Chinese health leaders to learn first hand about the Sri Lankan experience.
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children The incidence of government health spending in Asian countries

Work by the Equitap consortium, led by IHP, has revealed how well different Asian health systems perform in protecting the poor. In its latest publication in the World Bank Economic Review, Equitap analyzes the incidence of government health spending in different countries, finding that in a few such as Sri Lanka, Malaysia and Hong Kong, government spending is pro-poor. >>More...

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