DOCUMENT | 28 Oct 2021
Budgeting for results in health: Key features, achievements and challenges in Peru (August 2020)
Peru
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DOCUMENT | 28 Oct 2021
Implementing programme based budgeting in Ghana’s health sector – June 2021
Ghana
DOCUMENT | 27 Oct 2021
Financing Health for All: Increase, transform and redirect – COUNCIL BRIEF NO. 2 (October 2021)
DOCUMENT | 26 Oct 2021
Nigeria health financing policy and strategy 2017
Nigeria
A stronger national health financing system provides a stronger foundation for the broader health system. Health financing thus serves as pivot upon which other health system building blocks revolve and rest. Achieving universal health coverage (UHC) and all the...
DOCUMENT | 25 Oct 2021
Country-based study on evidence on financial protection in Georgia, 2021
Georgia
A new report titled “Can people afford to pay for health care?” was published by the WHO Barcelona Office for health financing and published in 2021. Authored by Ketevan Goginashvili, Mamuka Nadareishvili and Triin Habicht, this publication is part of a series of...
DOCUMENT | 25 Oct 2021
P4H Annual Review 2020-2021 – Annex
DOCUMENT | 18 Oct 2021
Côte d’Ivoire: Report on the workshop to develop the framework for the national health financing coordination platform
Côte d’Ivoire
DOCUMENT | 17 Oct 2021
Private expenditures on healthcare: determinants patterns and progressivity aspects
Israel
This journal paper discusses how private spending by Israelis on health care is related to the income of individuals and their place of residence, and the inequity in access to care that ensues. It also analyses the progressivity of public financing in Israel which is...
DOCUMENT | 15 Oct 2021
Study of health financing mechanisms in Burundi
Burundi
DOCUMENT | 15 Oct 2021
Final report on innovative financing mechanisms for the Social Protection Support Fund in Burundi
Burundi
DOCUMENT | 12 Oct 2021
Prospects for sustainable health financing in Tanzania: Baseline report
Tanzania, United Republic of
A high proportion of Tanzania’s total health spending comes from foreign donors and households’ out-of- pocket (OOP) spending, rather than from sustainable sources such as government tax-based revenue or health insurance. Over reliance on OOP can expose households to...
DOCUMENT | 12 Oct 2021
Universal health coverage (UHC) in low-Income countries: Tanzania’s efforts to overcome barriers to equitable health service access
Tanzania, United Republic of
The Government of Tanzania has implemented a number of health sector reforms that promote UHC in the last two decades. This case study focuses primarily on the initiatives that foster UHC with a specific pro-poor lens. Tanzania’s efforts that can potentially benefit...
DOCUMENT | 09 Oct 2021
The path to universal health coverage (UHC) in Kenya: Repositioning the role of national hospital insurance fund (NHIF)
Kenya
The NHIF was given a mandate by the Ministry of Health of Kenya to implement UHC in October, 2012. This generated controversy among key stakeholders concerned about allegations inefficiencies and precarious financial sustainability of the initiative. However, the...
DOCUMENT | 09 Oct 2021
Kenya health financing system assessment, 2018: Time to pick the best path
Kenya
This report assesses the Kenyan health financing system in light of ongoing reforms and the Government of Kenya’s (GOK’s) ambitious commitments to achieve universal health coverage (UHC) through multiple initiatives. International experience suggests that effective...
DOCUMENT | 01 Oct 2021
Kenya’s COVID-19 budget: Funding for health and welfare
Kenya
As the impact of Covid-19 continues to escalate, accountable public budgets that are aligned to the needs of people living in poverty and vulnerable populations are more crucial than ever. In the 2020/21 fiscal year, Kenya will not only be dealing with the social,...