ADB’s report, the Republic of Korea’s Coronavirus Disease Pandemic Response and Health System Preparedness, comprehensively covers several aspects that were crucial to the success of the ROK, such as effective resource mobilization, coordination, and timely social...
The "All About Korea's Response to COVID-19" booklet provides an interim overview of Korea's COVID-19 response efforts up to September 2020 in various areas including: - Epidemic response system - Testing, tracing, and treatment - Entry screening measures - Social...
Health Financing is critical to achieving health systems agenda. The overall purpose of the NHA study is to provide data for countries to monitor health spending across multiple streams, regardless of the entity or institution that financed and managed that spending...
Uganda Government has continued to strengthen the country’s health system by initiating policy reforms aimed at enhancing equity in health care with the goal of attaining universal health coverage. These reforms include the abolition of user fees and the introduction...
This second Health Financing Strategy (HFS) for Uganda came at a time of global commitment towards Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and Universal Health Coverage (UHC). This strategy served as a critical element in Uganda’s pathway to achieving the health-related...
WHO Regional Office for Europe in collaboration with WHO Country Office in Kyrgyzstan and WHO Barcelona Office for Health Systems Financing published a report titled “Health financing in Kyrgyzstan: obstacles and opportunities in the response to COVID-19” (2021)....
Strategic purchasing of health services and infrastructure can prove to be very valuable in achieving UHC in Low and Middle Income countries (LMICs) that have to optimize limited resources to provide adequate healthcare to its citizens. The brief explains this by...
A challenge to National Health Insurance in middle income countries like Botswana is financing the benefit package without increasing the formal sector’s taxation burden. This technical brief aims to add to policy dialogue discussing National Health Insurance...
Low- and middle-income countries are developing health financing strategies to map out how they will pay for universal health coverage. This brief discusses three activities that are valuable for producing sound strategies: convening multi-sectoral committees to...
Despite strong global commitment to achieve universal health coverage (UHC), inconsistent understanding and communication about UHC hinders progress. Experience suggests that advocating for and communicating about UHC requires deliberate, tailored, context-specific...
The P4H Network Steering Group held a two and a half hour extraordinary meeting virtually through the Zoom platform on 7th July 2021. The primary aim of this meeting was to reach agreement on a new P4H constituency-based governance model. The P4H Coordination Desk...
The P4H Network Steering Group (SG) held its annual meeting for 2020 in a virtual setting, divided into three sessions, October 5, 7, and 9, 2020. The meeting was prepared with the external facilitator and the coordination desk jointly and Steering Group members were...
Namibia has made a commitment to achieve universal health coverage (UHC), which requires the provision of quality health services to the population at an affordable cost. Health financing is a key element to consider in the move towards UHC, and health accounts...
The purpose of this report was to explore how insurance reforms could improve the efficiency and sustainability of the Botswana health system, and to offer specific policy recommendations to guide the development of a national health insurance reform proposal. The...
Key factors to consider in the development of approaches to UHC include expanding coverage of the population in terms of access to and quality of health service; equitable distribution of services; the types of services to be provided in the benefits package1; and the...
