Background document for the Steering Group Meetings on 27 / 29 September and 1 October 2021.
DOCUMENT | 24 Sep 2021
436 results
DOCUMENT | 23 Sep 2021
Study on health financing in Burundi
Burundi
DOCUMENT | 21 Sep 2021
Chad: Final report of the study on the institutional and functional framework of the Medical Assistance Scheme (AMED) under construction
Chad
DOCUMENT | 21 Sep 2021
South Sudan health system assessment
South Sudan
South Sudan is committed to attaining universal health coverage and this commitment is emphasized in the national constitution. Despite the commitment, the country has yet to make strides to achieve its health goals. This health system assessment was conducted to...
DOCUMENT | 20 Sep 2021
The Republic of Korea’s Coronavirus Disease Pandemic Response and Health System Preparedness (September 2021)
Korea, Republic of
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...
DOCUMENT | 20 Sep 2021
All About Korea’s Response to COVID-19 (October 2020)
Korea, Republic of
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...
DOCUMENT | 25 Aug 2021
Uganda’s national health accounts (NHA) for 2014/15 and 2015/16
Uganda
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...
DOCUMENT | 24 Aug 2021
Analytical review of health care reforms in Uganda and its implication on health equity
Uganda
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...
DOCUMENT | 24 Aug 2021
Uganda health financing strategy 2015/16 – 2024/25
Uganda
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...
DOCUMENT | 22 Aug 2021
A policy brief published on health financing in response to COVID-19 in Kyrgyzstan
Kyrgyzstan
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)....
DOCUMENT | 21 Aug 2021
Unleashing the Potential of Strategic Purchasing
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...
DOCUMENT | 21 Aug 2021
Fiscal Space and Financing for National Health Insurance in Botswana
Botswana
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...
DOCUMENT | 17 Aug 2021
Developing and Implementing Health Financing Strategies
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...
DOCUMENT | 17 Aug 2021
Communication and Advocacy in Action: Building Momentum for Universal Health Coverage
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...
DOCUMENT | 17 Aug 2021
Restricted content
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...