The peer-reviewed article assesses the proportion of the population covered by any health insurance and their social determinants drawing from the Jordan population and family health survey. The study found that more than one-quarter of the population in Jordan were...
In this study, the authors analyse the financing of Nigeria’s healthcare system in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. They use the three health care financing functions: revenue collection, pooling, and purchasing. The findings show that Nigeria projected that it...
Nigeria launched its NHIS in 2005, however, only 5% of Nigerians have health insurance and 70% still finance their healthcare through out-of-pocket (OOP) expenditure. Understanding the contextualized perspectives of stakeholders involved in NHIS is critical to...
Despite the operationalisation of the national health insurance scheme in 2005, high reliance on OOP health payments as a means of financing health system in Nigeria persists. OOP health payments can generate catastrophic expenditures leading to household...
The NHIF is the proposed health insurance scheme for South Sudan and aims at achieving universal health coverage. One challenging compounding issue however, is that over the years, governments’ spending on healthcare has been decreasing from 8.4% of national budget...
In low -income countries, health systems face a multitude of competing priorities amidst limited resources and Botswana is no exception. To ensure sustainable health financing, the expansion of health insurance coverage offers promise for many health systems in low...
Although health care in Botswana is highly subsidized and mainly financed through government taxes (68 %), 4.2% of the households still pay out of pocket exposing them to the risk of catastrophic health expenditures. In Botswana, 83% of the general population and 58%...
Financial health protection is one of the priority areas in the move towards universal health coverage (UHC) (WHO, 2010). As the drive towards UHC is gaining momentum globally, the need for assessing levels of financial health protection in countries, particularity...
Most African countries have committed to attaining (UHC, with millions of households struggling with high out-of-pocket (OOP) expenditures for health services. Generally speaking, tax-based health financing and social health insurance (SHI) are among the domestic...
Equity in health care entails payment for health services according to the capacity to pay and the receipt of benefits according to need. It is an essential element of universal health coverage. In Uganda, as in many African countries, although equity is extolled in...
CBHI schemes have been implemented world over to contribute to initial steps for national health insurance schemes, and universal health coverage. CBHI schemes aim to reduce out-of-pocket payments, and improve access to healthcare services in addition to raising...
Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has had a devastating impact globally, with severe health and economic consequences including increased disperaties in health inequalities. This has the potential to frustrate governments efforts towards universal health coverage. To...
In 2011, the South African health minister, proposed a national health insurance (NHI) for South Africa with the aim to deliver universal health access and care to all South African residential citizens, with a single fund to cover all people, no matter their income....
There is an international call for countries to ensure universal health coverage. This call has been embraced in South Africa in the form of a National Health Insurance (NHI). Other forms of health financing in South Africa include general tax revenue, direct...
This research paper examines the equity in the delivery and financing of health care for both the public and the private sectors in South Africa. Using nationally representative datasets and standard methodologies for assessing progressivity in health care financing...
