The Economics Behind Health and Equity
Country-specific approaches to financing health systems and vaccines in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region can improve health outcomes while reducing out-of-pocket expenditure - Salzburg Global SeminarMENA Health Financing: The Middle East and North Africa...
Impact of poor hospital WASH on health & economy
A series of reports by WaterAid explores the severe economic and health consequences of lack of basic water and hygiene services in healthcare facilities for low- and middle-income countries. WaterAid's latest research highlights the dire consequences of insufficient...
Nigeria’s $18B healthcare landscape: Partnering for sustainable health financing.
With its growing population and substantial healthcare market, Nigeria's health sector aims to tackle health systems challenges through strategic partnerships for sustainable health financing. One such collaboration is with the Netherlands, which shows progress...
Mandatory Health Insurance Fund fully covered contracted healthcare providers’s needs for medicines and supplies in the first quarter of 2024
The Mandatory Health Insurance Fund of Kyrgyzstan has fully covered the needs of healthcare organizations to purchase medicines and supplies in the first quarter of 2024. The fund reported that it has reimbursed medical services provided in this time-frame in full.To...
Pandemic Finance and Global Health Regulations
Urgency mounts to finalise Pandemic Agreement & IHR revisions amid financing challenges for global health security. As the ninth session of the Inter-governmental Negotiating Body (INB9) concludes and the 2024 World Health Assembly (WHA) looms, the imperative to...
ILO toolkit on social health protection
The ILO recently launched a Toolkit on Social Health Protection, emphasising universal access to affordable, quality healthcare and financial protection during illness, injury, and maternity.Rooted in a rights-based approach, the toolkit provides practitioners and...
Indonesia has reached 95.77 % of health insurance population coverage
In Indonesia, health insurance population coverage has reached to 95.77% in 2023, aligning with a goal set in the 2024 National Medium-term Development Plan.The population coverage target for 2024 is 113 million people insured with full premium subsidies by the state...
Vietnam Ministry of Health proposes increase in health insurance contributions
The Vietnam Ministry of Health is currently seeking inputs from relevant agencies regarding the proposed amendment of the Health Insurance Law to increase health insurance contributions.According to the Ministry, the existing health insurance contributions do not...
Korea to push for ‘fundamental shifts’ in the national health insurance system
Korea’s Ministry of Health and Welfare unveiled a five-year plan aimed at create fundamentally reshaping the national health insurance system for sustainability.Park Jun hee reported in The Korea Herald, "The 2024-28 comprehensive plan aims at better compensating...
China to expand basic medical insurance coverage for newborn children
China has initiated a campaign to extend basic medical insurance coverage to cover medical expense of newborns.According to Xinhua, Chinese authorities have issued a circular announcing the launch of this campaign on March 2, with the goal of expanding basic medical...
Chile: Health System Financing Challenges
Prominent academic, governmental, legislative, civil society and international experts participated in the conference entitled "Challenges for a sustainable and equitable financing of the Chilean health system". Professor Pere Ibern, World Bank consultant and expert...
Colombia: Generate 6.8% of Gross Domestic Product to maintain Health Benefits by 2030
The article presents the results of a study conducted by Banco de la República, according to which resources may be sustainable if the economy increases and efficiency is strengthened in the Health Service Provider Institutions (IPS).According to the Banco de la...
Key highlights from the 2023 Montreux Collaborative meeting
The 6th meeting of the WHO Montreux Collaborative on Fiscal Space, Public Financial Management and Health Financing[1] was held in Montreux, Switzerland from 14-16 November 2023. High-level finance and health-ministry representatives, development partners, and...
Lower health care costs in Burkina Faso
At its traditional cabinet meeting, the Burkinabe government approved a significant reduction in the fees for CT scans, MRIs and haemodialysis. These cost reductions range from 50 to 60% and are scheduled to take effect from the end of April 2024."The Council (of...
Free healthcare and healthcare financing: Nearly 9 billion FCFA saved by digitizing invoices
In Ouagadougou, the Minister of Health presided over the closing ceremony of the first ordinary session of the Comité d'orientation et de suivi de la gratuité des soins et du financement de la santé. The technicians spent two days examining the efficiency of free...