The Development Banks' Joint Roadmap for Climate-Health Finance and Action aims to enhance global health resilience through coordinated investments to mitigate climate-related health risks and strengthen health systems worldwide. In June 2024, eleven Multilateral and...
This study explains why Nepal needs to strengthen its National Health Insurance Program (NHIP) to better shield households from the financial impact of health care costs and achieve its ambitious goal of universal health coverage by 2030.Nepal has made significant...
Results are presented on the budgetary performance of the health sector in 8 countries. This document can serve as a guide for other countries in the region to improve financial management in the health sector, allowing for a more effective and efficient response to...
This report provides an overview of health systems in the Pacific region, focusing on three countries: the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI), the Kingdom of Tonga, and the Republic of Vanuatu across seven health systems domains.The Pacific Islands Countries and...
This book explains a provider payment management of the Thailand's Universal Coverage Scheme managed by the National Security Office (NHSO). The information in this book is based on Universal Coverage Scheme’s Fund Management Guidelines for Fiscal Year 2019.This book...
This document provides a review of efforts undertaken in four Indian states and several countries on the defragmentation of their health schemes. The document discusses health insurance reforms in various countries, with a focus on defragmentation of multiple health...
Health system reform in El Salvador succeeded in mobilizing national and international financial resources to improve health infrastructure, both ambulatory and hospital, laboratories and blood banks.The financing of the National Health System is a fundamental element...
The latest report from The Lancet Countdown in Europe tracks 42 indicators, underscoring climate change's worsening health impacts, delayed action, and the imperative for health-responsive strategies, while also addressing regional inequalities and the call for...
The paper seeks to understand (i) the role of National Health Mission (NHM) in defining/resetting health priorities in States and addressing horizontal inequalities, (ii) the constraints faced by States within the federal structure for delivering effective healthcare...
This country case study was prepared under the aegis of Seoul National University, which collaborated with the P4H Network to introduce the history of social health protection and health financing reforms in the Republic of Korea. This study aims to provide an...
The resources allocated to health between 2008 and 2014 are evaluated to verify whether they have been allocated to compliance with supranational regulations that seek to guarantee the human right to health.Public spending on health in Ecuador grew from 1.57% of Gross...
Public health and social assistance have had a high fiscal prioritization, exceeding 25% of total government spending.Analyzing the behavior of spending on health and social assistance in Cuba as a percentage of the Gross Domestic Product, it is worth noting that...
From 2012 to 2016, public financing in Paraguay grew by 10% and private financing by 13%. In per capita terms, this means that each Paraguayan invested an average of US$ 337 per year in health care.In those five years, 53% of health spending was made by public...
The financial protection indicators included provide an overview of the level of spending in the countries of the region. These are the overall health expenditure per capita and the proportion of out-of-pocket payments. The prevalence of financial vulnerability that...
Following the enactment of the Law on Social Security Schemes (2019), four social security schemes—occupational risk, healthcare, pension, and unemployment—were introduced, all overseen by the National Social Security Fund (NSSF). These schemes mandate to provide...
