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DOCUMENT | 18 Aug 2025

Government healthcare financing and dwindling oil prices: Any alternatives for OPEC countries?

Algeria, Iran (Islamic Republic of), Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of), Kuwait, United Arab Emirates

In this article from 2023, Salem Al Mustanyir explores the effect of a fall in oil prices on healthcare financing in eight Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC). The analysis shows that in three of the eight countries, health financing did shift...

DOCUMENT | 16 Aug 2025

Prices and affordability of essential medicines in 72 low-, middle-, and high-income markets

Access to essential medicines, as defined by the World Health Organization, is a cornerstone of universal health coverage. Yet, many people worldwide face high out-of-pocket costs or limited availability, particularly in low- and middle-income countries. Understanding...

DOCUMENT | 11 Aug 2025

Did health reform improve financial protection for disadvantaged groups in Ecuador? A socio-economic inequality assessment of catastrophic health expenditures 2006-2014

Ecuador

In BMJ Open, Edy Quizhpe Ordóñez, Miguel San Sebastian, Enrique Teran, and Anni-Maria Pulkki-Brännström present a socio-economic inequality assessment of Ecuador’s health reforms from 2006 to 2014. The study evaluates whether the reforms—which made public health...

DOCUMENT | 31 Jul 2025

Financial toxicity of hemophilia care in Southeast Asian countries

In their recent Viewpoint published in The Lancet Regional Health – Southeast Asia, authors Jose Marco Antonio II, Stephanie Wang, Frederic Ivan L. Ting, Jeremiah R. Vallente, Edward Christopher Dee, and Erin Jay G. Feliciano examine the pressing issue of financial...

DOCUMENT | 24 Jul 2025

Integration of refugees into national health systems: Enhancing equity and strengthening sustainable health services for all

In their open-access article published in Conflict and Health, Fadi El-Jardali, Sara Bennett, and Paul Spiegel examine how low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) can integrate refugees into national health systems as part of efforts to achieve universal health...

DOCUMENT | 26 Jun 2025

Healthcare managers’ perspectives on direct health facility financing in Tanzania

Tanzania (United Republic of)

Health financing reforms are crucial for improving efficiency, transparency, and service delivery in low- and middle-income countries, where health systems often operate under tight resource constraints. In Tanzania, the Direct Health Facility Financing (DHFF)...

DOCUMENT | 02 Jun 2025

Navigating health financing cliffs: a new era in global health

In a Comment published in The Lancet, Kumanan Rasanathan, Maylene M Beltran, Alberta A Biritwum-Nyarko, Mark S Blechner, Mark Dybul, Hajime Inoue, and colleagues raise the alarm on the steep decline in development assistance for health and the deepening crisis it has...

DOCUMENT | 21 May 2025

Exploring the facilitators and barriers to achieving universal health coverage in Uganda: a qualitative study of the free healthcare policy

Uganda

Published in Health Research Policy and Systems by BMC (part of Springer Nature), this qualitative study titled "Exploring the facilitators and barriers to achieving universal health coverage in Uganda: a qualitative study of the free healthcare policy" offers...

DOCUMENT | 17 May 2025

Public-Private-Partnerships for Primary Care in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh: Lessons on pathways and drivers

India, Pakistan, Bangladesh

In their recent publication in The International Journal of Health Planning and Management, Shehla Zaidi, A. Venkat Raman, Mahbub Elahi Chowdhury, Farooq Azam, and Priya Balasubramanium examine the evolution and implementation of public-private partnerships (PPPs) in...

DOCUMENT | 14 May 2025

A UK wealth tax for better health

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

In the face of deepening health inequalities and a crisis of underfunding in the UK’s National Health Service, a growing body of experts argues that it is time to revisit the idea of a wealth tax. With over four million children living in relative poverty, and with...

DOCUMENT | 09 May 2025

Leveraging health financing, digital health and self-care approaches to strengthen maternal health journeys in India: perspectives from Assam

India

Published by Frontiers in Global Women's Health on April 9, 2025, the Perspective article "Leveraging health financing, digital health and self-care approaches to strengthen maternal health journeys in India: perspectives from Assam" offers a comprehensive view on...

DOCUMENT | 09 May 2025

Universal health coverage in fragile and conflict-affected States: insights from Somalia

Somalia

A new open-access research article published in the International Journal for Equity in Health examines Somalia’s progress toward achieving universal health coverage (UHC) in the context of ongoing fragility and conflict. Titled "Universal health coverage in fragile...

DOCUMENT | 08 May 2025

A return on investment analysis for the 2017 increase in alcohol excise taxation in Lithuania

Lithuania

A recent study published in Addiction by Jürgen Rehm, Pol Rovira, Ahmed S. Hassan, Claire de Oliveira, Shannon Lange, Mark J. Thompson, Ilona Tamutienė, Vaida Liutkutė-Gumarov, and colleagues evaluates the impact of Lithuania’s 2017 alcohol excise tax increase. The...

DOCUMENT | 05 May 2025

Excess healthcare utilization and costs linked to chronic conditions: a comparative study of nine European countries

The rising prevalence of chronic conditions poses a major challenge to healthcare systems across Europe, driving increased demand for both inpatient and outpatient services. This article, published in the European Journal of Public Health (April 2025, Volume 35, Issue...

DOCUMENT | 21 Apr 2025

The role of demographic and epidemiologic transitions on growing health expenditures in LAC

Countries across Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) are facing rising healthcare costs as populations age and chronic diseases become more common. A new study published in The Lancet Regional Health – Americas by Yvonne N. Flores, Timothy Roberton, Marisol Torres...

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