Ministry of Public Health presents National Health Plan 2022-2032 for the Dominican Republic
The National Health Plan 2022-2032 seeks to characterize a joint vision between social security and other entities that make up the health system in the Dominican Republic. It proposes to provide health insurance to the 278 municipalities, which are the main actors of...
New documents available on Chile’s country page
New documents available on the Chile country page / Nuevos documentos disponibles en la página país de Chile
MoH of Ukraine published financial and budget reports for 2021
On October 20, 2022, the Ministry of Health of Ukraine published annual financial and budget reports for the past year of 2021 on its website. Publishing healthcare financing reports is a good practice for transparency and public accountability. Among the documents...
Stakeholder Validation of the GiZ BACKUP Health funded GOPA Assessment and Recommendations on Sierra Leone Social Health Insurance (SLeSHI) Implementation
This workshop provided an opportunity for stakeholders to be updated on recent developments around the preparations for SLeSHI implementation by the Ministry of Health and Sanitation (MoHS). GOPA expert, Professor Holst shared key findings and recommendations from the...
Registration is now available for free health care for migrants living in Bolivia
The Ministry of Health and Sports, through the Unified Health System, enabled the registration to this system for foreign migrants living in Bolivia, which grants them the benefit of free care in the first, second and third level health centers of the public sector...
Mali: the Board of Directors considers the results of the Compulsory Health Insurance scheme to be satisfactory.
The directors of the Caisse Malienne de Sécurité Sociale (CMSS) and those of the Assurance Maladie Obligatoire (AMO) met for their 28th and 18th board meetings. According to Sékou Oumar Dembélé, representative of the Minister of Health and technical advisor to...
Côte d’Ivoire: the obligation to subscribe to Universal Health Coverage is divisive
In Côte d'Ivoire, a decree adopted by the Council of Ministers on Wednesday September 28 makes universal health coverage (CMU) compulsory for all social classes. A decision that divides the population. Proof of enrolment in the Couverture Maladie Universelle scheme,...
Designing social protection for people with disabilities: Lessons from Australia and Singapore
Our regional expert, Esabelle Yam Lo Yan, Australian National University, shares her views about social protection for people with disabilities, highlighting lessons from Australia and Singapore. The Asia and Pacific region is home to 690 million persons with...
Forgone healthcare and financial burden due to out-of-pocket payments in Bangladesh
The health financing system in Bangladesh is underfunded, forcing the households to incur OOPE to avail health care services. As a result, around 16% households incurred financial catastrophe in 2011, 5% non-poor households became poor, and 7% of Bangladeshi...
Catastrophic health spending among older adults in India
Deprivation among the aged population and its implication on households is a global concern due to the unprecedented rise in the geriatric population. Old age is a period of many vulnerabilities, falling health, retirement from the workforce, no/reduced income,...
Health care utilization and expenditure inequities in India: Benefit incidence analysis
Health systems often pick up inequity in the distribution of health benefits due to competing demand and supply factors by various actors. Health care in India is provided by a vast network of public, private-for-profit, charitable and NGO facilities. Typically,...
Update of the strategic performance framework in Cameroon
After 08 years of implementation program based budgeting, the Ministry of Health has deemed it necessary to ensure consistency between the performance indicators of the program budget and those monitored by the Ministry of Health through DHIS2 at national level. ...
The Ministry of Health in Cameroon has added a program under Program Based Budgeting
The Ministry of Health in Cameroon has increased the number of programs under Program Based Budgeting mechanism from 4 programs to 5 programs. The five programs under Program Based Budgeting mechanisms are: P1) Health promotion and nutrition, (P2) Disease prevention,...
A committee has been established in Cameroon to facilitate the execution of emergency expenses like COVID-19
A committee chaired by the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Health was set up in Cameroon to monitor the execution of expenses related to emergency situations like COVID-19, the African Cup of Nations. The monitoring committee ensures that the priority health...
Ministry of Finance consultation with the Ministry of Health to facilitate the execution of expenditures in Cameroon
Bottlenecks related to the execution of health expenditures are often related to the public financial management rules and procedures put in place. These procedures are sometimes incompatible and creates hurdles for the Ministry of Health to react quickly to a health...