Latvia cancels healthcare funding system of «two baskets»
People in Latvia will maintain access to healthcare services in the framework of mandatory health insurance by 2021, regardless of insurance payments made. Recently the Latvian parliament passed as draft amendments to the Latvian Healthcare Funding Law in the final...
The 2017 reform to improve financial sustainability of national health insurance in Estonia
In 2017, the Estonian government addressed the longstanding challenge of financial sustainability of the health system by expanding its revenue base. As a relatively low-spending country on health, Estonia relies predominantly on payroll contributions from the working...
Ukraine: review of health financing reforms 2016-2019.
In 2015, the Government of Ukraine initiated transformative reforms of its health system to improve population health outcomes and ensure financial protection from excessive out-of-pocket payments. This was to be achieved through increasing efficiency, modernizing the...
Reducing out-of-pocket payments for health in order to achieve UHC in Mongolia
Reducing out-of-pocket payments for health in order to achieve universal health coverage in Mongolia – The Center for Policy Impact in Global Health Healthcare costs are among the largest barriers to accessing health services and achieving universal health coverage...
The Health Systems and Policy Monitor for Lithuania
The European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies monitors country specific health system and policy related developments. As part of Health Systems in Transition (HiT), it includes health financing that covers health expenditure, sources of revenue, fund flows,...
Equity in health care financing: The case of Malaysia
Equitable financing is a key objective of the health system system in Malaysia. Its importance is evidenced in policy documents, policy statements, the work of health economists and policy analysts. The conventional categorizations of finance sources for health care...
The Future of Health Financing in Vietnam : Ensuring Sufficiency, Efficiency, and Sustainability.
Vietnam is changing rapidly economically, with parallel shifts in epidemiology and demographics. There have also been significant policy shifts in recent years, including in the health sector. The combined effects of these transitions pose some risks to the...
Universal health coverage and primary care, Thailand
Thailand’s policy on UHC has made good progress since its inception in 2002. Every Thai citizen is now entitled to essential preventive, curative and palliative health services at all life stages. Like its counterparts elsewhere, however, the policy faces challenges....
Health financing and budgeting practices for health in the Philippines
The Philippines has placed a strong emphasis on achieving UHC. In recent years, earmarked funds from new alcohol and tobacco taxes have substantially increased government funds available for health. This additional funding offers great potential to improve access and...
Health systems equity in Indonesia
Many countries are implementing reforms to support UHC. Perhaps one of the most ambitious examples of this is Indonesia’s national health scheme known as the JKN which is designed to make health care available to its entire population of 255 million. If successful,...
Lao PDR: New Financing to Improve Access to Health and Nutrition Services
On 12 March 2020, the World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors today approved US$23 million for Lao PDR under the Health and Nutrition Services Access Project (HANSA). The project aims to strengthen the country’s health system and improve the quality and coverage of...
COVID 19 Policy responses in Belarus
WHO/EURO, EC and the European Observatory launched COVID 19 policy responses in European countries. This monitoring platform covers the issues relating to preventing transmission, ensuring sufficient physical infrastructure and workforce capacity, providing health...
No hay calma después de la tormenta: Es tiempo de reorganizar los sistemas de gestión de finanzas publicas (GFP) en el sector salud
La crisis de COVID-19 está impactando toda forma de acción gubernamental, incluyendo políticas y procesos en torno a la gestión de las finanzas públicas (en adelante, GFP). En este blog, presentamos nuestro mejor entendimiento de las lecciones de GFP derivadas de la...
Creation of an interministerial national technical working Group for “UHC” by the Ministry of Public Health
MOH, Labour and Social security, Social affairs, MOF, Territorial administration, Economy, National Social Security scheme, Civil society, private sector and development partners; Designing the national plan for UHC; Implementing and monitoring the UHC plan;...
P4H Mission: OMS-GIZ joint mission
Establishing a dialog on UHC concepts Supporting the “UHC” TWG Designing a work plan Looking for synergies between Development Partners