Laos has authorized home recovery for mild COVID-19 patients
In Laos, the Ministry of Health has authorized Covid-19 patients who have mild symptoms to recover at home, aiming to secure the hospital beds for COVID-19 patients with severe conditions. The criteria for home recovery patients are as follows: Fully Covid-19...
Timor-Leste shared COVID-19 experiences on public finance
In Timor-Leste, Minister of Finance, Rui Gomes, participated in the high-level meeting of Portuguese-Speaking Countries in Africa – East Timor (PALOP-TL) on public finance “Transform the State”. The two high-level personalities were invited to participate, the former...
Japan plans to increase wage for care workers and nurses
Japan plans to increase wage for care workers, nursery school staffs, and nurses under the new stimulus package. The expected total budget for the stimulus package is greater than 30 trillion yen, aiming to alleviate the impact of COVID-19 through boosting economic...
Bahrain’s national health insurance system improves access and provision
This chapter from The Report: Bahrain 2020 published by Oxford Business Group outlines how the country’s health insurance system functions in terms of mobilization of funds, government healthcare expenditure as a percentage of GDP and the public primary health care...
Changes in Catastrophic Health Expenditures Depending on Health Policies in Turkey
This peer-reviewed article aims to evaluate the health care services that caused a rise in the ratio of households with catastrophic health expenditures in Turkey since 2012. These had previously been positively affected by the Health Transformation Program and...
Bahrain’s National Health Plan
Bahrain’s Supreme Council of Health published the country’s National Health Plan in 2016 with the objective of adopting modern methods in providing healthcare services to meet the health needs of its citizens starting with primary healthcare promoting optimal...
2. Turkish Health Transformation Program and beyond
This policy brief lays out Turkey’s significantly improved supply of health services under its Health Transformation Program (HTP) between 2003 and 2013. Improved health outcomes, increased health utilization and changes in health financing trends reflect the rise in...
Turkey- Social Insurance and Universal Health Insurance Law
The purpose of this law in Turkey is to outline the government policy on social insurance and universal health insurance and list the types of individuals/ groups who will benefit from such insurances and their specific provisions.
Regional Conference on Extending Social Health Protection in the Asia Pacific Region towards Universal Health Coverage
Background: Over the past decades, many countries in Asia and the Pacific have rapidly expanded social health protection coverage. Despite laudable progress, the effective realization of the human rights to health and social security is not yet a reality for all....
Ensuring employees who lost jobs or quit jobs enjoy health care following health insurance scheme
https://vss.gov.vn/english/news/Pages/vietnam-social-security.aspx?ItemID=10086&CateID=198
Equity in utilization of health care services in Turkey: an index based analysis
This case study unravels Turkey’s path to universal coverage. It outlines both the transformation of the health system and the performance of the Green Card program. Initially launched in 1992, the Green Card program has seen a rapid expansion in the number of...
Turkish Health Transformation Program and beyond
This policy brief lays out Turkey’s significantly improved supply of health services under its Health Transformation Program (HTP) between 2003 and 2013. Improved health outcomes, increased health utilization and changes in health financing trends reflect the rise in...
Turkey provides COVID 19 treatment and medicine free of charge
Coronavirus treatment and medicine for patients in public hospitals in Turkey has been made free of charge following a presidential decree. It says that all patients, even if they failed to pay state insurance, will be granted protective gear and testing, as...
Turkey’s Health spending reaches over $35.4B in 2019
Turkey's health expenditure posted a year-on-year rise of 21.7% to reach 201.3 billion Turkish liras ($35.44 billion) in 2019. Health expenditure per capita reached 2,434 Turkish liras ($428.5) with an increase of 19.9% while out of pocket health expenditures...
Presenting documents on Turkey’s health system, social health protection laws, programs and more
We have the pleasure of presenting 5 (five) new documents on Turkish health financing and social health protection in this space. Two research papers examine Turkey’s Health Transformation Program that was introduced (2003) to improve social health protection and...