The incremental healthcare cost associated with cancer in Belgium: A registry-based data analysis
Study assesses healthcare burden of cancer in Belgium for 2018, identifying lung cancer as the most costly. It emphasizes prevention strategies targeting risk factors to reduce the economic impact. Findings offer valuable insights for implementing cost-containment...
Understanding pandemic financing and learning from other experiences
The discussion paper, prepared for a Geneva workshop, examines pandemic financing challenges, explores spending capacities of countries, and analyses financing mechanisms from global regimes, including lessons from the Global Fund. This discussion paper was crafted in...
Vacancy: WHO Seeks Health Policy and Service Design Coordinator in Manila, Philippines
The World Health Organization's (WHO) Western Pacific Region is seeking a qualified candidate to fill the role of Coordinator, Health Policy and Service Design. This role presents a unique chance to contribute to the region's health systems' resilience and...
Niger 2022 Economic Update
After a COVID-19 related growth slowdown in 2020, Niger’s economic recovery was hit by a series of climate and security shocks in 2021 that deteriorated many economic and social indicators. As a result, GDP growth decelerated to 1.4 percent in 2021, which translated...
Supreme Decree: Basic Health Insurance in Bolivia
This Supreme Decree 25265 established that children under 5 years of age, pregnant women in Bolivia had the right to access a basic package of preventive and curative health services, and the general population to the diagnosis and treatment of some communicable...
Healthcare challenges in ageing populations: Catastrophic health expenditure and unmet needs
Health Economics Review (Biomedcentral) study, 'Universal health coverage in the context of population ageing: catastrophic health expenditure and unmet need for healthcare' reveals disparities in catastrophic health expenditure and unmet needs, highlighting the...
Law on Comprehensive Health Services of the Plurinational State of Bolivia
Law 475 provided for comprehensive health care and financial protection for Bolivian inhabitants who did not have health insurance from the social security system's managing entities. This law provides financial health protection to all inhabitants of the...
Assessing equity and efficiency of health financing towards UHC in Tanzania
A new study suggests promoting equity and efficiency in health financing across 26 regions in Tanzania is crucial to meeting UHC goalsThe peer-reviewed study assesses equity and efficiency in health financing across 26 regions in Tanzania for four funding sources in...
National Health Service Delivery Survey RCA-2019
The first of its kind in the Central African Republic, this report presents reliable information on the availability of health services, the general operational capacity of services, the availability and operational capacity of specific health services, comprehensive...
Analysis of care packages in CAR-2020
The aim of this document is to analyze the care packages within the health district proposed in both national guidelines and current international trends, in order to propose interventions appropriate to the current situation in CAR, which will be the subject of the...
Evaluation of the BPF health project in CAR
This report evaluates Cordaid's Performance-Based Financing (PBF) driven health project in Nana Mambéré prefecture, health region 2, during the political and humanitarian crisis from March 2013 until May 2014 to see if PBF was able to respond to the emergency...
National health accounts report from 2015 to 2018 in CAR
Health accounts are a tool for systematically, consistently and exhaustively tracking the flow of resources in a country's healthcare system. In the CAR, they are drawn up on a regular basis and make it possible to assess the total amount allocated to healthcare...
National Community Health Policy CAR 2020-2030
The community health policy stems from the presidential impetus for the CSU, where we note a preoccupation with bringing care closer to the population, guided by equity and the concern to spare families from certain expenses linked to distance and delays in care.The...
CAR National Health Development Plan 2022-2026
The third-generation National Health Development Plan 2022-2026 (PNDS III) sets itself the challenge of reversing the current high levels of maternal mortality, infant mortality and neonatal mortality, in order to improve the life expectancy of Central Africans. The...
Singapore: More subsidies for chronic patients under new Healthier SG
Healthier SG is a new, long-term reform healthcare plan for Singapore implemented by the Ministry of Health (MOH), aiming to promote preventive care. Healthier SG scheme has introduced a new program called Healthier SG Chronic Tier in 2024.Starting from February 1,...