Optimizing the use of existing pooled government funds for better health outcomes in India
India’s health care system underperforms its low- and middle-income peers. It has been seen that countries in South Asia with lower PPP-adjusted GDPs per capita have delivered better health outcomes than India has. And in terms of financial protection, Indian...
Examining reasons behind market failure in health insurance
Deepti Bhaskaran is a Senior Journalist with over 15 years of experience. She specialises in personal finance and looks closely into the insurance and pension space. Being a low-middle income country, the health expenditure in India is amongst the lowest at 3.54 per...
Revisiting Ayushman Bharat Scheme: Win-win or win-lose?
Disha Bhanot, Assistant Professor at SP Jain Institute of Management & Research, Mumbai writes about how COVID-19 has exposed the dark underbelly of our healthcare system and health insurance schemes may have little chance of achieving sustained benefits. With an...
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Malawi: Govt reaffirms its commitment to universal health coverage (UHC)
The Minister of Health and Population Khumbize Kandodo Chiponda has reiterated the government's commitment to delivering quality health services in line with the UHC strategies. At an opening ceremony of a new theatre at Dedza District...
WORKSHOP TO DRAFT 2 OF THE NATIONAL HEALTH FINANCING STRATEGY (SNFS)
The MSANP's Universal Health Coverage Implementation Support Unit, with the support of HP+ and technical and financial partners supporting work on UHC (UNICEF, WORLD BANK, P4H, WHO), has initiated work to draw up national health financing strategies, in line with the...
Burkina Faso: FCFA 16.38 billion for health infrastructure for internally displaced persons
Burkina Faso has obtained financing from the Islamic Development Bank (IDB) to implement a project to strengthen primary healthcare in order to improve health and nutrition. At an estimated cost of FCFA 16.38 billion, the IDB contributed FCFA 15.37 billion. This sum...
Africa Covid19: CFAF 9.5 billion and CFAF 3 billion to be raised to ensure 10% vaccine coverage
According to the World Bank, in addition to the $9.5 billion needed to purchase enough vaccine to ensure sufficient protection against COVID-19, a further $3 billion will be required to finance vaccination operations. Thanks to the COVAX Mechanism, some...
SENEGAL FONDS FORCE COVID-19: 773.2 billion mobilized, of which 740 paid out
General François Ndiaye, Chairman of the "Force Covid-19" Fund Operations Monitoring Committee, presented the final report on the Committee's activities. As a result, "the Economic and Social Resilience Program (Pres), the State's instrument for intervening in the...
Senegal: CMU extended to wards of the Nation
On Tuesday, the Universal Health Coverage Agency (ANACMU) and the National Office for Wards of the Nation (ONPN) signed a partnership agreement aimed at extending health care to these wards. According to ONPN Director Mamadou Saliou Daillo, "this partnership agreement...
Implementing UHC in the Philippines: Is the glass half full or half empty?
Christian Edward Nuevo¹, Maria Eufemia Yap¹, Matt Boxshall², & Nirmala Ravishankar² ThinkWell, Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines ThinkWell, Washington DC, United States of America Correspondence to Christian Edward Nuevo (email: ian.nuevo@gmail.com)...
Policy and Implementation Insights on Provider Payment Reforms of the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation
Dredge, R., Nuevo, C. E., Paterno, A. R. (2021) The Philippine Universal Health Care (UHC) Law of 2019 introduced system-level reforms on health financing, particularly for the provider payment mechanisms of the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation...
Indicator systems for monitoring and evaluation of the operation of Vietnam’s social security industry
https://vss.gov.vn/english/news/Pages/vietnam-social-security.aspx?ItemID=9912&CateID=198
An ideal public health model? Vietnam’s state-led, preventative, low-cost response to COVID-19
https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2021/06/29/an-ideal-public-health-model-vietnams-state-led-preventative-low-cost-response-to-covid-19/