Policy Note on Belarus Hospital Optimization
Though Belarus has achieved improvements in key health outcomes, it faces a growing burden of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs). Demographic processes in the Republic of Belarus are accompanied by a high rate of NCDs, with cardiovascular diseases (CV...
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| Format: | Policy Note |
| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2021
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/291591612169266229/Belarus-Hospital-Optimization-Policy-Note http://hdl.handle.net/10986/35097 |
| Summary: | Though Belarus has achieved improvements
in key health outcomes, it faces a growing burden of
noncommunicable diseases (NCDs). Demographic processes in
the Republic of Belarus are accompanied by a high rate of
NCDs, with cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) being a leading
cause of mortality and morbidity in the country. The
objective of the Advisory Services and Analytics (ASA) was
to help the government in developing an understanding of the
vision on hospital optimization for 2021–2025, considering
lessons learned from other Europe and Central Asian
countries. The paper starts with Chapter 1, defining the
epidemiological profile of Belarus, its burden of diseases,
organization of hospital service delivery, and utilization
of these services in a manner that sets the stage for the
subsequent discussion; Chapter 2 on the explanation of the
health financing mechanism in the country and provides
information on imbalances in the financing of the health
system in Belarus, referring to the Belarus Health Public
Expenditure Review (2018); Chapter 3 of the paper describes
the government proposal on the creation of the interregional
centers (IRCs) and interdistrict centers (IDCs) and how
these centers fit into the health care delivery system and
their role and functionality; Chapter 4 shares international
practice, to understand how countries such as Estonia,
Finland, Denmark, Germany, Netherlands, and Australia are
dealing with similar health care issues and how their health
care services are organized to address cardiovascular
morbidity and mortality; and Chapter 5 proposes some
potential options for changes in the organization and
delivery of hospital services, based on the discussions and
issues raised in the previous chapters as well as on the
analysis of hospitals in the two regions of Brest and Gomel. |
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