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to sustain itself (Ahmad Jan, 2006). As programs are more commonly funded by government agencies, this
finding may indicate that programs with external sources of funding are more likely to include financial linkages.
6.3 Health
Figure 18 – Percentage of ID Programs with Health Linkages (by Region)
Figure 18 breaks down the 12 national ID programs with health linkages by region. Programs in South and
Southeast Asia appear most likely to have linkages, with over 40 percent of programs connected to a health
function in contrast to less than 20 percent of programs in the Middle East, North Africa and in Sub-Saharan
Africa.
Health applications appear to have spread in the last ten years, as 59 percent of the programs linked with
health services were established between 2006 and 2015 (Figure 19). However, we do not observe any trends
in the proportion of programs with health linkages over time. Half of the programs introduced prior to 1995
are linked to a health service, and the proportion for the other time periods ranges from 25 to 27 percent.
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