Mozambique achieves progress in health sector financing, spurred by COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the relevance of ensuring universal access to health care services and adequate social protection guarantees. Public stewardship for the health sector and robust and unified health financing and social health protection (SHP)...
G20 Joint Finance and Health Ministerial Taskforce advances global health financing strategies
The G20 Joint Finance-Health Task Force (JFHTF) is actively working towards optimizing financing mechanisms to address various health challenges, especially in low and middle-income countries.The G20 Member nations have strongly emphasized the need for swift and...
2023 Thai UHC Journey Workshop : Social Participation in Health Decision-Making
November 27- December 1,2023 | 9.00-16.00 hrs | Bangkok, Thailand. Thailand's Ministry of Public Health (MOPH), National Health Security Office (NHSO), Thai Health Promotion Foundation (ThaiHealth), National Health Commission Office, Thailand (NHCO) and the...
Launch of the Global Monitoring Report “Tracking universal health coverage” 2023
Wednesday 20 Sept 2023 at 14:00-15:30 (CET) | 8:00-9:30am (EST) The WHO Division of Data, Analytics and Delivery for Impact, WHO Division of Universal Health Coverage/Life Course and the World Bank’s Health, Nutrition and Population Global Practice is jointly...
Transforming the health system in Uzbekistan: two-year implementation review
This WHO EURO review of the implementation Uzbekistan's health system reforms assesses the implementation of system changes and provides recommendations for future reform development. Abstract Uzbekistan has started a process of health system reform that includes...
Ever-growing health expenditure and mandatory social health insurance: what’s next? – Part 3 of a 3-part series
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Financing health system elements in Africa: A scoping review
A peer reviewed research article published in PLOS ONE tracks the data on types of health financing in Africa. Abstract Countries that are reforming their health systems to progress towards Universal Health Coverage (UHC) need to consider total resource...
Ever-growing health expenditure and mandatory social health insurance: what’s next? – Part 2 of a 3-part series
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Ever-growing health expenditure and mandatory social health insurance: what’s next? – Part 1 of a 3-part series
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Estonia: health system summary, 2022
Abstract This Health system summary is based on the Estonia: Health System Review published in 2018 in the Health Systems in Transition (HiT) series, and is significantly updated, including data, policy developments and relevant reforms as highlighted by the Health...
Is contributory health insurance indeed an addiction to a bad idea? A comment on its relevance for low- and middle-income countries
Abstract Financing of health systems is an enduring concern world wide. Yazbeck and colleagues in their paper make an important point that when there is a choice between financing in which contributions from citizens take place in the form of generalised taxes versus...
MoH Cameroon – CSU mutual workshop report – Kribi, July 2012
SUMMARY REPORT National workshop on the role of mutual health insurance in universal health coverage in Cameroon Kribi (Hôtel le Paradis), July 10 and 11, 2012
Self-employment as a socio-economic problem in Kazakhstan
The analysis showed that in the structure of the group of self-employed in Kazakhstan by type of activity, the agricultural sector dominates - 33.3%. Most of the self-employed are also concentrated in distribution services (trade 32.1%, transport and warehousing...
Chatham House: Public international financing for global health priorities
Abstract The overall environment for raising public international finance for global health priorities is getting tougher, with some widely supported activities such as pandemic prevention, preparedness, and response proving much harder to fund than might be expected...
Burkina Faso adopts 5 decrees to make the CSU operational
The Council of Ministers of Burkina Faso, held on Wednesday August 9, 2023, adopted 5 decrees essential to the operationalization of the Universal Health Insurance Scheme. These decrees were awaited since the promulgation of the RAMU law of September 5, 2015. They...