Voucher rebates for low-income households in Singapore
In Singapore, the Goods and Services Tax (GST) is imposed on the domestic consumption of goods or services including imports. A permanent GST Voucher Scheme was introduced in 2012, aiming to support lower- and middle-income households and the elderly. The voucher has...
Budget structure in health and transition to programme budgeting: Lessons from Armenia (December 2018)
Transition to programme budgeting in health in Burkina Faso: Status of the reform and preliminary lessons for health financing (December 2018)
Budget structure reforms and their impact on health financing systems: Lessons from Kyrgyzstan (July 2020)
Health financing and budgeting reforms in Gabon: Progress and challenges on the road to Universal Health Coverage (August 2020)
Budgeting for results in health: Key features, achievements and challenges in Peru (August 2020)
Implementing programme based budgeting in Ghana’s health sector – June 2021
Bahrain National Insurance launches insurance cover for COVID 19
Bahrain National Insurance has launched a COVID 19 insurance cover that is expected to be useful to various private and public establishments for covering COVID 19 related medical needs of their employees. Benefits of the health insurance include a one-off...
Financing Health for All: Increase, transform and redirect – COUNCIL BRIEF NO. 2 (October 2021)
Presentation & Discussion: “From Double Shock to Double Recovery – Implications and Options for Health Financing in the Time of COVID-19”
The World Bank Geneva Office invites you to join others from the Geneva international community to the presentation of the latest report "From Double Shock to Double Recovery – Implications and Options for Health Financing in the Time of COVID-19”. Background: More...
Strengthening Maternal Health Finance in Kenya: Lessons for Universal Health Coverage Reform
Join ThinkWell, KEMRI Wellcome Trust, and P4H for a special webinar, "Strengthening Kenya’s Free Maternity Policy: Lessons for Universal Health Coverage Reforms" on Tuesday, November 9 at 4:00 PM EAT (8:00 AM EDT/2:00 PM CET) to hear experts discuss new study findings...
Top economists call for radical redirection of the economy to put Health for All at the centre in the run-up to G20
The COVID-19 Pandemic has brought into focus the stark reality of the large and growing inequities across the globe in access to health care and health products: for every 100 people in high-income countries, 133 doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been administered, while...
Kuwait during the pandemic of COVID 19
This article outlines the government of Kuwait’s response to the health crisis caused by the COVID 19 pandemic and the course of action that it has undertaken to protect the public health of its citizens and residents. The policy report includes an early cost/benefit...
Universal health insurance in Rwanda: major challenges and solutions for financial sustainability of the community-based health insurance (CBHI)
Rwanda introduced CBHI as a vehicle for universal health insurance and universal health coverage. First introduced in 1999/2000, CBHI has since faced chronic financial deficit. In this peer reviewed study, the authors assessed the challenges facing CBHI financial...
Rwanda: Health financing strategic plan (2018-2024)
This document complements the 2018-2024 Health sector strategic plan, focussing on health financing. Health financing is a core function of health systems that can enable progress towards universal health coverage (UHC) by improving effective service coverage by...