2023 Thai UHC Journey Workshop : Social Participation in Health Decision-Making
November 27- December 1,2023 | 9.00-16.00 hrs | Bangkok, Thailand. Thailand's Ministry of Public Health (MOPH), National Health Security Office (NHSO), Thai Health Promotion Foundation (ThaiHealth), National Health Commission Office, Thailand (NHCO) and the...
Launch of the Global Monitoring Report “Tracking universal health coverage” 2023
Wednesday 20 Sept 2023 at 14:00-15:30 (CET) | 8:00-9:30am (EST) The WHO Division of Data, Analytics and Delivery for Impact, WHO Division of Universal Health Coverage/Life Course and the World Bank’s Health, Nutrition and Population Global Practice is jointly...
World Bank feature: Caribbean and Central America forge path to universal health coverage
The World Bank and the Korea-World Bank Partnership Facility (KWPF) are providing critical support to countries in the Caribbean in their ambitious journey to expand Universal Health Coverage (UHC).Countries in the Caribbean region are mid-way through this reform...
Ever-growing health expenditure and mandatory social health insurance: what’s next? – Part 3 of a 3-part series
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Financing health system elements in Africa: A scoping review
A peer reviewed research article published in PLOS ONE tracks the data on types of health financing in Africa. Abstract Countries that are reforming their health systems to progress towards Universal Health Coverage (UHC) need to consider total resource...
Ever-growing health expenditure and mandatory social health insurance: what’s next? – Part 2 of a 3-part series
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Financing the future of global health
An article by PATH on the need and ways for more and better investment in primary health care to achieve universal health coverage. Primary health care (PHC) has been proven to be the most cost-effective way to improve population health outcomes. Investing in PHC is...
Ever-growing health expenditure and mandatory social health insurance: what’s next? – Part 1 of a 3-part series
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Estonia: health system summary, 2022
Abstract This Health system summary is based on the Estonia: Health System Review published in 2018 in the Health Systems in Transition (HiT) series, and is significantly updated, including data, policy developments and relevant reforms as highlighted by the Health...
Is contributory health insurance indeed an addiction to a bad idea? A comment on its relevance for low- and middle-income countries
Abstract Financing of health systems is an enduring concern world wide. Yazbeck and colleagues in their paper make an important point that when there is a choice between financing in which contributions from citizens take place in the form of generalised taxes versus...
International Conference on Primary Health Care 2023
Resilient Primary Health Care: The Foundation of Universal Health Coverage In The Era of Sustainable Development Goals September 5 - 7 | Skylight Hotel, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia The International Institute for Primary Health Care (IPHC-E) in collaboration with the...
Self-employment as a socio-economic problem in Kazakhstan
The analysis showed that in the structure of the group of self-employed in Kazakhstan by type of activity, the agricultural sector dominates - 33.3%. Most of the self-employed are also concentrated in distribution services (trade 32.1%, transport and warehousing...
One million lives saved per year: A cost–benefit analysis of the global plan to end tuberculosis, 2023–2030 and beyond
The report One Million Lives Saved Per Year: A Cost–Benefit Analysis of the Global Plan to End Tuberculosis, 2023–2030 and Beyond, published in the Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis, evaluates the economic and health impacts of scaling up global efforts to combat...
Chatham House: Public international financing for global health priorities
Abstract The overall environment for raising public international finance for global health priorities is getting tougher, with some widely supported activities such as pandemic prevention, preparedness, and response proving much harder to fund than might be expected...
Burkina Faso adopts 5 decrees to operationalize the CSU
The Council of Ministers of Burkina Faso, held on Wednesday, August 9, 2023, adopted 5 essential decrees for the implementation of the Universal Health Insurance. These decrees were expected since the enactment of the RAMU law of September 5, 2015. They care:...