The latest SLOTS polling estimates show 80% of Sri Lankan adults say that the country is heading in the wrong direction in May 2024

All three of IHP’s Consumer Confidence indices changed slightly in May 2024.

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Increasing PCR testing reduced COVID-19 cases and deaths, and it was the most important predictor of how well countries contained the pandemic. The study also found that lockdowns did not slow the virus in most countries, and that masks and school closures had less impact than high levels of testing and isolation.

Our first SLHA policy brief discusses trends in health expenditure in Sri Lanka over past three decades.

We compare the quality of care in public and private sector outpatient care in Malaysia using the National Medical Care Survey 2014, using 66 internationally validated quality indicators in 27,587 patient encounters.

This publication presents revised estimates of health spending in Sri Lanka for 1990–2016 that comply with the System of Health Accounts (SHA) which is the global standard for reporting health expenditures published by the WHO and OECD.