The World Bank's latest report emphasises the need to invest in healthy longevity, potentially saving 150 million lives by 2050. Titled Unlocking the Power of Healthy Longevity: Demographic Change, Non-communicable Diseases, and Human Capital, the report highlights...
Advancing social health protection in central and western Asia
The ILO report, Extending social health protection: Accelerating progress towards universal health coverage in Central and Western Asia, provides an in-depth analysis of the social health protection systems in countries across Central and Western Asia, including...
Financing social protection in the Pacific and Timor-Leste
This report examines the current and historical levels of social protection expenditure in 14 countries across the Pacific and Timor-Leste. This research draws primarily on national budget documents (including budget estimates, reports and speeches) and annual reports...
National Health Accounts for financial years 2020/21 to 2021/22
The NHA report provides a detailed analysis of Tanzania mainland's health spending from 2019/20 to 2021/22, with a focus on 2021/22. Total Health Expenditure (THE) increased by 26% from 2020, reaching TZS 6.83 trillion (USD 2.9 billion) in 2022. Government...
National Health Accounts 2020
This report presents findings from the 2020 National Health Accounts (NHA), developed with the support of the World Health Organization (WHO), detailing the Total Health Expenditure (THE) in Mauritius for 2019. Key findings include an estimated THE of Rs 30.7 billion,...
Health Financing Progress Matrix Assessment 2023: Summary of findings
This report provides a concise summary of the Health Financing Progress Matrix (HFPM) assessment for Mauritius, highlighting key strengths and weaknesses in the country's health financing system. It identifies priority areas that need to be addressed to advance...
Strategic investment for health system resilience: A three-layer framework
The book Strategic Investment for Health System Resilience: A Three-Layer Framework, edited by Zhao, Feng, Kovacevic, Rialda, Bishai, David, and Weintraub, Jeff, presents a comprehensive investment framework designed to enhance health systems' resilience in the face...
Health Financing Progress Matrix Assessment 2024
This report provides a comprehensive assessment of Zambia's health financing system, highlighting both the significant progress made towards achieving universal health coverage (UHC) over the past two decades and the ongoing challenges that need to be addressed. It...
Analysing and overcoming access barriers to strengthen primary health care
The report titled "Analyzing and Overcoming Access Barriers to Strengthen Primary Health Care," published by the Pan American Health Organization, presents an in-depth collaboration with Member States to address barriers to accessing primary health care in the...
Tracking inequalities in financial hardship due to out‑of‑pocket health spending by age structure of a household
This technical brief 'Tracking inequalities in financial hardship due to out‑of‑pocket health spending by age structure of a household', developed by the WHO Centre for Health Development (WKC) and the Health Financing and Economics Department at the World Health...
National Health Accounts 2022
Estimates of health spending and financing in Uruguay for the year 2022 are presented using the Health Accounts methodology (SHA 2011). Total health spending represented 9.13% of gross domestic product (GDP), 0.7 percentage points higher than in 2021. Public spending...
Estimation of Covid-19 vaccine delivery cost in Botswana
The UNICEF report presents a comprehensive costing study on delivering COVID-19 vaccines in Botswana, employing both top-down and bottom-up methodologies. The analysis encompasses expenses incurred by various government sectors, parastatals, donors/partners, and NGOs,...
Cost-effectiveness of integrated vaccination outreach service delivery in Eswatini
This report examines the economic effectiveness of integrated outreach vaccination services to improve childhood immunization rates in Eswatini, currently below the Global Vaccine Action Plan target of 90%. The study conducted by Eswatini's Ministry of Health and...
Proposed redesign and restructuring of the national health insurance scheme
The report reviews Ghana's National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), established by Acts 650 (2003) and 852 (2012), highlighting its success in providing affordable healthcare to millions while identifying key challenges threatening its sustainability. Despite...
Bangladesh Health Financing Progress Matrix Assessment 2021
The Health Financing Progress Matrix assessment builds on an extensive body of conceptual and empirical work. It summarizes “what matters in health financing for UHC” into nineteen desirable attributes, which form the basis of the assessment. By identifying areas of...