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.

This publication presents the first estimates of Sri Lanka's health expenditure based on the new System of Health Accounts 2011 (SHA 2011), which has been endorsed for international reporting by the WHO, OECD and Eurostat.

This paper published in the Oxford Journals Health Policy and Planning March 2015 issue compares the quality of inpatient clinical care in public and private hospitals in Sri Lanka

This publication presents revised estimates of health spending in Sri Lanka for 1990–2012 that comply with the System of Health Accounts (SHA) which is the global standard for reporting health expenditures published by the OECD.

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 6558, August 2013

The findings reveal how healthcare costs, quality, and physical barriers play differing roles in the countries studied in preventing access, and how families are often impoverished by accessing needed care.

This publication presents revised estimates of health spending in Sri Lanka for 1990–2008 that comply with the System of Health Accounts (SHA) which is the global standard for reporting health expenditures published by the OECD.