Japan to raise medical fees for people over 75 based on income
To address the rapidly graying population coupled with low birth rates in Japan, the Japanese Parliament is hiking out of pocket health expenditure for those aged 75 and above subject to a minimum income of 2 million yen. The plan will require people over 75...
Government accepts Medishield Life Council’sRecommendations and commits S$2.2 Billion for premium subsidies and support
Singapore offers healthcare coverage to its entire population through Medisave, a personal savings account and MediShield Life, a low-cost medical insurance to help Singaporeans pay for large hospitalisation bills. To ensure continued healthcare...
Universal Coverage Scheme: 10 outstanding accomplishments in 2020
The National Health Security Office (NHSO), Thai government’s independent agency overseeing Universal Coverage Scheme (UCS) despite the COVID 19 crisis initiated new health programs, health system response and social innovations that strengthen health system in...
Public–private partnerships for universal health coverage? The future of “free health” in Sri Lanka
With less than 5% spending ion health, the Sri Lankan Government runs public hospitals that offer ‘free’ healthcare on a walk-in basis with no extra cost. While this is an achievement of no ordinary means and has impressive geographical reach even though...
Budget debate: Healthcare subsidies to be revamped so those who need them will get more
The Health Ministry is looking to reorganize the system of hospital care subsidies to benefit those that need financial help with their medical bills. This essentially means a switch from basing subsidies on an individual’s income to per capita household income (PCHI)...
Flexi-MediSave rules to be eased to allow seniors to withdraw up to $300 for outpatient treatment
The Flexi-Medisave scheme allows patients aged 60 and above to tap their own or their spouse's Medisave funds to pay for outpatient expenses at polyclinics, specialist outpatient clinics and GP clinics under the Community Health Assist Scheme (CHAS). Annual...
Singapore Health Minister says share of national health expenditure increased to 46% but doesn’t say it’s far below OECD’s average.
In the past eight years Singapore has consistently increased the share of health in the national budget by and average of 1.2% from 2013 onwards. In Parliament, Health Minister Gan Kim Yong assured the House that primary healthcare will be strengthened...
Overview of budgetary processes in Côte d’Ivoire
The budget preparation process is well framed by the 2014 Loi organique relative aux Lois de Finances (LOLF) and related regulatory texts. It is inspired by this new law, which is in line with international best practice, driven by the reform of public finance...
Changes in the composition of the government budget in Côte d’Ivoire, 2018-2021
Between 2018 and 2020, the share of the budget allocated to the Health and Social Action sector will be Social spending in Côte d'Ivoire increased from 6.1% to 6.6% of the State budget. However, between 2020 and 2021, the healthcare budget fell back to 6.1%. of the...
Workshop to present the results of the study: “Economie politique de la CSU au Burkina Faso: points de vue des parties prenantes et priorités de recherche”.
Recherche pour la Santé et Développement (RESADE) in collaboration with Queen Margaret University (Great Britain) conducted a study to analyze the place and challenges of using political economy analysis in Universal Health Coverage (UHC) policies and practices, as...
Workshop to present the results of the study: “Economie politique de la CSU au Burkina Faso: points de vue des parties prenantes et priorités de recherche”.
Recherche pour la Santé et Développement (RESADE) in collaboration with Queen Margaret University (Great Britain) conducted a study to analyze the place and challenges of using political economy analysis in Universal Health Coverage (UHC) policies and practices, as...
Семинар, посвященный представлению результатов исследования: “Политическая экономика CSU в Буркина-Фасо: точки зрения партий и приоритеты исследований”.
Компания Recherche pour la Santé et Développement (RESADE) в сотрудничестве с Университетом Королевы Маргарет (Великобритания) провела исследование с целью анализа места и проблем использования политэкономического анализа в политике и практике универсального...
Minister of Health meets with development partners to promote external support to government priorities
The Minister of Health, Armindo Daniel Tiago, met on 16th April, 2021 with health development partners to take stock of external support in defined priority areas. The Minister exposed the priorities for this period, being the most relevant i) The project to...
Hungary Reaches 3 Million Vaccinations, Reopening Continues?
Hungary has now reached 3 million vaccinations against the coronavirus, and despite infections and deaths remaining high, talks of further reopening are underway. The United Kingdom is also continuing its reopening, but its conditions appear much safer than the...
Mass testing for COVID-19 in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia: “One door-one test” approach
In response to the recent increase of COVID 19, the Mongolian government initiated a mass testing campaign, the so-called “One door-one test” (ODOT), which utilised PCR assays to test one family member (age>18) from each of the 420,000 households in the capital...