Health financing and integration of urban and rural residents’ basic medical insurance systems in China
China is in the process of integrating the new cooperative medical scheme (NCMS) and the urban residents’ basic medical insurance system (URBMI) into the urban and rural residents’ basic medical insurance system (URRBMI). However, how to integrate the financing...
Kyrgyzstan examined transforming national health system towards UHC
Improving financial protection and access to health care for citizens is the key financing issues in Kyrgyzstan. In 2016, the Ministry of Health of Kyrgyzstan celebrated the anniversary of the mandatory health insurance system – the main vehicle of Universal Health...
Challenges on the Path to UHC: The experiences of Azerbaijan
In 2018, World Bank's series of UHC Studies was devoted to Azerbaijan. It is aimed at policy-makers and UHC reform implementers in low- and middle-income countries. Over the last decade, Azerbaijan has been able to increase significantly public resources for...
Policy dialogue to support development of health financing strategy in Uzbekistan
Uzbekistan has embarked on a comprehensive health financing reform to ensure equal access to health care, financial protection and equitable distribution of resources. The latest activity in support of the reform was a policy dialogue which brought together over 100...
The politics of the basic benefit package health reforms in Tajikistan
Health financing reform is a fundamentally political process. Yet, evidence on the interplay between domestic politics, international aid and the technical dimensions of health financing systems, particularly in the former Soviet Union and Central Asia, remains...
Armenia – Achievements and Challenges in Improving Health Care Utilization
Following the post-Soviet transition period, public spending on health dropped sharply, as did health care use rates. Health care use rates declined in part because formal and informal out-of-pocket expenditures had to compensate for the decrease in public spending....
Issues of Health Care Financing in Russia
The paper published on 20 January 2020 analyses three key issues in the reform of public health care funding in the Russian Federation: the lack of funds to cover the state guarantees of free medical care to the population; the lack of coordination between...
Health System Review of Georgia
This analysis of the Georgian health system reviews developments in its organization and governance, health financing, health care provision, health reforms and health system performance. Since 2012, political commitment to improving access to health care, to...
Latvia cancels healthcare funding system of «two baskets»
People in Latvia will maintain access to healthcare services in the framework of mandatory health insurance by 2021, regardless of insurance payments made. Recently the Latvian parliament passed as draft amendments to the Latvian Healthcare Funding Law in the final...
The 2017 reform to improve financial sustainability of national health insurance in Estonia
In 2017, the Estonian government addressed the longstanding challenge of financial sustainability of the health system by expanding its revenue base. As a relatively low-spending country on health, Estonia relies predominantly on payroll contributions from the working...
Ukraine: review of health financing reforms 2016-2019.
In 2015, the Government of Ukraine initiated transformative reforms of its health system to improve population health outcomes and ensure financial protection from excessive out-of-pocket payments. This was to be achieved through increasing efficiency, modernizing the...
Reducing out-of-pocket payments for health in order to achieve UHC in Mongolia
Reducing out-of-pocket payments for health in order to achieve universal health coverage in Mongolia – The Center for Policy Impact in Global Health Healthcare costs are among the largest barriers to accessing health services and achieving universal health coverage...
The Health Systems and Policy Monitor for Lithuania
The European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies monitors country specific health system and policy related developments. As part of Health Systems in Transition (HiT), it includes health financing that covers health expenditure, sources of revenue, fund flows,...
Equity in health care financing: The case of Malaysia
Equitable financing is a key objective of the health system system in Malaysia. Its importance is evidenced in policy documents, policy statements, the work of health economists and policy analysts. The conventional categorizations of finance sources for health care...
The Future of Health Financing in Vietnam : Ensuring Sufficiency, Efficiency, and Sustainability.
Vietnam is changing rapidly economically, with parallel shifts in epidemiology and demographics. There have also been significant policy shifts in recent years, including in the health sector. The combined effects of these transitions pose some risks to the...