Webinar: Health financing in FCAS: when humanitarian concerns dominate
Many regions and countries are now facing emergencies, acute and chronic, with challenges to security, political settlements and health security. These demand new approaches to health financing that learn from developmental and humanitarian approaches and explore...
Mandatory for employers to buy primary care plan for migrant workers in Singapore from Apr 1
To enable affordable health care and financial risk protection among migrant workers in Singapore, employers are mandated to buy primary care plans for migrant workers as part of their work pass requirements, effective on April 1. The new regulation will be applied to...
Brunei’s health budget in the financial year 2022/23 has increased by 1.2%
Brunei’s Legislative Council members have approved BND 391,937,883 for the Ministry of Health (MOH) in the financial year 2022/2023. The allocated budget has increased by 1.2% from the previous year. The budget theme for MOH in the financial year 2022/2023...
Impact Evaluation of Service Delivery Grants to Improve Quality of Health Care Delivery in Cambodia
"The purpose of this report was to provide an overview of the Health Equity and Quality Improvement Project (H-EQIP) and to present the baseline findings of the Service Delivery Grants impact evaluation. Hte report also includes a discussion and outlines some policy...
WEBINAR #1 on social health care reforms and health care financing in the CIS
March 16, 2022 - 10:00 - 11:30 a.m. Central European Time We invite you to share knowledge and regional perspectives on reforms in social protection of health care and health financing in CIS countries . Our speakers will share lessons learned,...
WEBINAR #1 on Social Health Protection and Health Financing Reforms in the CIS
Join us as at we exchange knowledge and regional perspectives of Social health protection and health financing reforms in Commonwealth of Independent States. Our panelists will exchange lessons learned, key achievements, and progress made toward social health...
Video recording now available: Financing Universal Health Coverage despite instability – a webinar organized by WHO and AFRAFRA
In many countries, instability is undermining the state's ability to exercise its sovereign functions and provide basic services to its population, to the point of undermining its legitimacy. These "fragile" situations raise major challenges for progress towards...
Tchad: sensibilisation et mobilisation des populations en faveur de la vaccination contre la Covid19
Le ministère de la santé publique et de la solidarité nationale a lancé le samedi 12.02.2022, les activités de sensibilisation, de mobilisation et d’information en faveur de la vaccination contre la pandémie de covid-19 partenariat avec l’ONG Albarka qui a obtenu, à...
Chad: Restitution des travaux de confection des Comptes Nationaux de Santé de l’année 2018, N’Djaména 01.02.2022
A meeting to present the final report on Chad's national health accounts was held with the Minister of Public Health and National Solidarity on 01.02.2022. The National Health Accounts for the year were drawn up by the technical departments of the Ministry of Public...
CHAD: AFD prepares phase 3 of the Health Sector Support Project (PASST3) in Chad
The project manager in the health division of Agence Française de Développement (AFD) carried out a mission to evaluate PASST2 activities and prepare a PASST3 in Chad from 31.01 to 12.02.2022. During her stay, she met with those involved in implementing PASST2...
Chad: National Health Development Plan evaluation process launched
The thematic evaluation workshop of the national health development program phase 3 was held in N'Djaména from 22-25.02.2022. The four-day workshop is organized by the Ministry of Public Health in partnership with the World Health Organization in Chad. Over the course...
Чад: начат процесс оценки Национального плана развития здравоохранения
Семинар по тематической оценке фазы 3 национальной программы развития здравоохранения проходил в Нджамене с 22 по 25.02.2022 г. Этот четырехдневный семинар организован Министерством здравоохранения в партнерстве с Всемирной организацией здравоохранения в Чаде. В...
Advancing universal health coverage in the COVID-19 era: an assessment of public health services technical efficiency and applied cost allocation in Cambodia
"This study assesses Cambodia’s public health services technical efficiency, unit costs, and utilization rates to quantify the extent to which current health financing can accommodate the expansion of social health protection coverage."
Chad: Pre-dialogue on maternal, neonatal, child and adolescent health, Mara 27-30.01.2022
The national pre-dialogue workshop on maternal, neonatal and infant mortality took place from 27-30.01.2022 in Mara. During the conference, health professionals, partners and stakeholders will spend four days working on the themes selected for discussion, identifying...
Payment mechanism for institutional births in Nepal
Since 2005, Nepal government has implemented Maternity Incentive Scheme (MIS) to reduce out-of-pocket expenditure (OOPs) for institutional birth. This study aimed to assess MIS coverage in Nepal and OOPs among women who had institutional births. Findings showed that...