Colombia introduces junk food tax
Colombia has implemented a tax on ultra-processed foods, becoming one of the first countries in the Americas to take such a measure to tackle obesity, diabetes, and other lifestyle diseases.The Lancet reports that Colombia is one of the first to tax food high in salt...
Malaysia MOH Moots National Health Insurance With Employee, Employer, Government Contributions
Malaysia is exploring a national health insurance scheme funded by employees, employers, and the government that will be “run by the government, non-profit driven, and uses the philosophy of shared responsibility," says Dr Zaliha Mustafa, the Minister of...
Health financing progress matrix assessment: Uganda 2023
This WHO report provides a concise summary of the Health Financing Progress Matrix assessment in Uganda, conducted as part of the mid-term review of the national health financing strategy. The report was conducted using a highly participatory process, with the...
Health financing progress matrix assessment: Georgia 2023
This report from the World Health Organization provides a concise summary of the Health Financing Progress Matrix assessment in Georgia, where WHO has a long engagement on health financing issues. Overview The report was conducted using a highly participatory process,...
Montreux Collaborative
The Montreux Collaborative is a WHO led platform for collaboration between countries and development partners. It aims to generate and disseminate global and country evidence on how to make budgets work for health, with a specific focus on transforming budget...
Health policy and system research cocreation pilot convening in Asia
In May 2021, the HSSA launched a series of virtual meetings to cocreate a vision and action plan for a more responsive and robust health policy and system research ecosystem in Asia. The P4H Network and the Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research agreed to...
Update on P4H Network collaboration on the Mexican Health System Transformation
As reported in the September 2022 governance newsletter, the P4H Network began a collaboration with the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) office in Mexico, looking at the political economy of the ongoing Mexican health system transformation. At that time, terms...
L4UHC module for francophone Africa
A regional gathering of the L4UHC programme is always a great experience. The one that took place in Rabat, Morocco, from 16 through 20 October 2023 met all expectations.The coalitions of Chad and Cameroon came together again to meet and share, to reconnect with their...
Workshop: Epidemics and Pandemic Prevention Preparedness and Response
The workshop, Epidemics and Pandemic Prevention Preparedness and Response: How to Maximize the Health Impact of Social Protection Systems, preceded the P4H-TEG meeting, on October 4 and 5. It was a collaboration jointly held by ILO and WHO and showcased a further...
Health financing policies during the COVID-19 pandemic and implications for universal health care
A research paper published in the December 2023 Issue of the Lancet Global Health on how 15 countries responded to the COVID-19 pandemic through their health financing policies. The paper has been co-authored by Aungsumalee Pholpark, Community Facilitator for the Asia...
6th Meeting of the Montreux Collaborative on Fiscal Space, Public Financial Management and Health Financing
13-17 November | Eden Hotel in Montreux, Switzerland Theme: Adjusting Public Financial Management (PFM) for better health: new evidence to shape next-generation reforms The Meeting Report on this year's Montreux Collaborative on fiscal space, public financial...
The application of artificial intelligence in health financing: a scoping review
Scoping review explores AI applications in health financing and future potentials. AI enhances performance in governance, revenue raising, pooling, and strategic purchasing, guiding future policy and capacity development.Artificial Intelligence (AI) represents a...
78th UNGA side event: Fast-tracking global health goals through health policy and systems research
Health Systems Global and the Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research, co-sponsored by the governments of Japan and Norway held a special side event at the 78th United Nations General Assembly to take stock of the deliberations held that week.The event...
Understanding international measures of health spending
Age-adjusting expenditure on health A part of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Health Working Papers series, this paper assesses health system performance over time or across countries often means comparing populations with age...
Efficiency of Health Systems in Middle-Income Countries and Determinants of Efficiency in Latin American and the Caribbean
Inter-American Development Bank publication estimates the efficiency of health spending in 145 middle and high- income and the potential gains from improving efficiency for a range of health system outputs using Data Envelopment Analysis for 2010- 2014 and 2015- 2019...