COVID-19 in India: Who are we leaving behind?
The world's COVID-19 response has been unsettling especially regarding people living in informal settlements, migrants, refugees, and other ultra-vulnerable populations. It reiterates serious concerns about health inequality, as well as people lacking human rights and...
Economics of COVID‑19: Challenges and Way Forward for Health Policy in India
The emergence of novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‑19) pandemic provides unique challenges for the health system. In this paper, the authors used economic underpinnings to explain several of these challenges and suggest a way forward for health policy, during, and...
Health Issues, Health Care Utilization & Health Care Expenditure among Elderly in India
India has a large elderly population, with enormous diversity pertaining to social, economic, educational and health status which demands more healthcare services as they age. But, unregulated systems, lack of resources, inefficient public health system, absence of...
Impact of Out-of-Pocket Health Expenditure on Consumption Patterns in India
The financial burden from health expenditure is a serious cause of concern for low-and middle-income countries as they tend to push households into poverty or deepen their existing poverty. In India, where out-of-pocket expenditures are high, poor and daily wage...
India’s historic effort to expand health insurance to individuals living Below Poverty Line
One of the most ambitious health care reforms in history, Ayushman Bharat, was rolled out in 2018 in India. It is expected to provide health insurance coverage to 100 million below poverty line families in a country where two-thirds of all health expenditures are out...
Penetration and coverage of government-funded health insurance schemes in India
Global health policy advocates suggest that health insurance could provide a safety net to low-income families by reducing financial risk, improving access to care for better health outcomes. To achieve such UHC outcomes, the national and state governments in India...
Digitizing payments and advancing universal health coverage
To meet this challenge of inclusion, Senegal's Agence Nationale de la Couverture Maladie Universelle has deployed an ambitious digital payment platform. Over 200,000 workers will now have access to quality healthcare subsidized by the Senegalese government. While 81%...
Digitizing payments and advancing universal health coverage
To meet this challenge of inclusion, Senegal's Agence Nationale de la Couverture Maladie Universelle has deployed an ambitious digital payment platform. Over 200,000 workers will now have access to quality healthcare subsidized by the Senegalese government. While 81%...
CMU in Tambacounda: More than $250 million to be invested in free healthcare by 2020
In 2020, more than 250 million francs were paid out to health facilities as part of the free healthcare scheme for children and pregnant women. The announcement was made by , Director General of the Universal Health Coverage Agency (Acmu), on the bangs of a tour...
Analysis of the political economy of the CSU in Burkina Faso
RESADE (Recherche pour la Santé et le Développement) organized a workshop this Thursday, April 22, 2021, in Ouagadougou, to present the results of the study entitled " Economie politique de la couverture sanitaire universelle au Burkina Faso : points de vue...
Journalists benefit from INAM health insurance
This is a major step towards improving the living and working conditions of journalists in the private press. "We felt it was important to subscribe to INAM health insurance for our union members, because today we work in a precarious situation. Almost all journalists...
Журналисты пользуются медицинской страховкой INAM
Это серьезный шаг на пути к улучшению условий жизни и работы журналистов в частной прессе. "Мы посчитали необходимым оформить медицинскую страховку INAM для членов нашего профсоюза, поскольку сегодня мы работаем в условиях нестабильности. Почти все журналисты не...
SAINT-LOUIS – PRESENTATION OF MEMBERSHIP CARDS FOR A MUTUAL HEALTH INSURANCE COMPANY
In the commune of Ross Béthio, several children of migrants returning to the Saint-Louis region received their membership cards for the commune's Mutuelle de Santé. The operation is on the initiative of the leaders of the Jeunesse Espoir organization, as...
Health insurance: CNAMGS conducts strategic study of medical deserts
How can we bring health insurance to deepest Gabon ? A question that is addressing the Caisse nationale d'assurance maladie et de garantie sociale (CNAMGS) through a workshop on support for the project to operationalize health departments for the...
National Assembly opts for free healthcare for minorities
Victory for the million pygmies after the vote on a bill enshrining positive discrimination in favor of marginalized indigenous peoples . This is the culmination of a long struggle by the Congolese civil society organization Dynamique des groupes des peuples...