Cambodia: National Social Security Fund Report on Annual Achievements 2022 and Action Plans
Following the enactment of the Law on Social Security Schemes (2019), four social security schemes—occupational risk, healthcare, pension, and unemployment—were introduced, all overseen by the National Social Security Fund (NSSF). These schemes mandate to provide...
Analysing Tanzania’s health financing reforms: Insights from iCHF implementation
Assessing Tanzania's health financing reform, a new study highlights gaps in decision-making for the improved Community Health Fund (iCHF), emphasizing the need for procedural fairness and stakeholder inclusion for effective implementation.Tanzania's strides in health...
Feasibility of social health insurance in Zambia
Amid uncertainties in development assistance for health programs in Sub-Saharan Africa, social health insurance gains attention as a potential financing mechanism. A study in Zambia investigates its viability. While public support is high, with 80% willing to join,...
Strengthening PHC Financing through Ministries of Health and Finance collaboration
Botswana's Interministerial Meeting held on 15-18 April 2024, supported by PROPEL Health and AERC, prioritizes primary healthcare (PHC) financing for Universal Health Coverage, fostering collaboration for sustainable health systems. The Botswana Interministerial...
Cambodia: Guidelines for the Benefit Package and Provider Payment of the Health Equity Fund
Health equity fund (HEF) is a social health protection scheme aimed at enabling access to essential health care among the poor for free of charge in public health facilities in Cambodia. The guidelines describe the standard benefit packages and provider payments for...
Catastrophic impact of COVID-19 health spending on multidimensional poverty
A study in Ghana reveals COVID-19's impact on health expenditures. It found that 4.2% of households faced catastrophic health costs, with disparities among urban and poor households. Government assistance and remittances are crucial in mitigating financial burdens...
Cambodia’s Pentagonal Strategy – Phase I
This document outlines Cambodia's pentagonal strategy-Phase I, focusing on growth, employment, equity, efficiency, and sustainability. The pentagonal strategy is a long-term socioeconomic plan aligned with Cambodia Vision 2050, to be implemented over the next 25...
May 2024 issue of the World Health Organization bulletin
The May 2024 Bulletin of the World Health Organization focuses on the report of the WHO Council on the Economy of Health for All, covering topics of the social, commercial and environmental determinants of health that are crucial for healthy societies, a shift from...
Towards universal health coverage in Vietnam: a mixed-method case study of enrolling people with tuberculosis into social health insurance
Social health insurance (SHI) serves as a primary financing mechanism for social health protection in Vietnam. In 2022, the country shifted from reliance on donor funding for tuberculosis to domestic financing via SHI. Following this shift, TB services were integrated...
Out-of-pocket expenditure, need, utilisation, and private health insurance in the Australian healthcare system
This study investigates if the burden of out-of-pocket expenditure differs between individuals with and without private health insurance (PHI) and whether chronic conditions or hospitalisation increase this difference in Australia.Findings indicate that PHI is...
The Compulsory Health Insurance Fund of Azerbaijan cooperates with the State Health Insurance Fund of Uzbekistan
A memorandum on cooperation and mutual activity was signed between the State Agency for Compulsory Health Insurance (the Agency) of Azerbaijan and the State Health Insurance Fund of the Republic of Uzbekistan (the Fund). The memorandum was signed by the first leaders...
BPJS Kesehatan’s strategy to protect 275 million Indonesians with health insurance
BPJS-Kesehatan is a social security administering body for health which manages the national health insurance called Jaminan Kesehatan Nasional (JKN) in Indonesia. In an interview with in the GovInsider, Ghufron Mukti, President Director of BPJS Kesehatan outlined how...
Regulation note UGP_P4H 2023
Despite the efforts made and improvements achieved over the last few decades, most of Niger's health and social indicators are still well below the expected public health targets, and progress is slow.The MSP/P/AS is committed, through the reforms it is implementing...
Multiple Indicator Demographic and Health Survey
This is the fourth Demographic and Health Survey with Multiple Indicators (EDSN-MICS IV), carried out from February to June 2012 by the National Institute of Statistics (INS) of the Ministry of Finance, in collaboration with the technical services of the Ministry of...
Economic update: Resilience in uncertain times in Niger
After a slowdown in growth linked to COVID-19 in 2020, Niger's economic recovery was hit by a series of climatic and security shocks in 2021 that deteriorated many economic and social indicators.Unlike most countries in the region, Niger showed a certain resilience in...