Press Release: World Health Day 2018 – Cambodia
To celebrate World Health Day, the Ministry of Health of Cambodia along with partners WHO, JICA and Germany are convening a Cambodia Universal Health Coverage Forum today and tomorrow, 5-6 April, reflecting this year’s World Health Day theme: Health for All –...
The Global Financing Facility (GFF) Investment Case Meeting Agenda
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Southern Africa countries with lowest OOP in Africa
Data published by WHO coming from National Health Accounts (NHA) 2015 show that the lowest rates of out-of-pocket payments in relation to Current Health Expenditure (CHE) are found in Southern African countries: Botswana, Mozambique, South Africa, Namibia, Lesotho,...
L4UHC Institutional Set-up
The World Bank injects $105 Million to improve Primary Health Care in Mozambique, with disbursements linked to performance and health financing
The World Bank approved $105 million equivalent in non-reimbursable grants for the Government of Mozambique’s Primary Health Care Strengthening Program‐for‐Results. Of this amount, $25 million equivalent is provided by the Global Finance Facility (GFF)*, and $80...
Evaluation of results-based financing in the Republic of the Congo
The authors of this journal article evaluate results-based financing in the Republic of Congo from 2012-2014. Using a household survey and review of facility data, authors concluded that some improvements were seen in service quality. Overall, the study shows a...
2005-11-04 Development of social health insurance in Mongolia: Successes, challenges and lessons
This paper examines the process of developing social health insurance in Mongolia during 1994-2004, and its successes, challenges and lessons. The development of compulsory health insurance in Mongolia shows that a prepaid health insurance mechanism based on risk...
2009-08-11 Health promotion financing with Mongolia’s social health insurance
Health promotion is receiving more attention in Mongolia. A survey is undertaken to examine health promotion in terms of health-related information, education, counseling, screening, and preventive and medical checkups. There are several factors that limit the...
2016-02-16 Social health insurance development in Mongolia: Opportunities and challenges in moving towards Universal Health Coverage
This paper is the second paper that reviews social health insurance development in Mongolia during 2005-2015. The first paper from 2005 reviewed mandatory health insurance development during 1994-2004. During these years, health insurance brought many new features for...
2016-11-07 Catastrophic health expenditure and impoverishment in Mongolia
The aim of this study was to analyze the incidence of catastrophic health expenditures and to measure the rate of impoverishment from health care payments under the social health insurance scheme in Mongolia. Data from the 2012 Household Socio-Economic Survey was...
2016-04-17 The Adoption of Roles by Primary Care Providers during Implementation of the New Chronic Disease Guideleines in Urban Mongolia.
This study aimed to analyse the roles that different primary care providers adopted, and the variations in these, in the implementation of the guidelines in urban Mongolia. Data was analysed usinga thematic approach based on the identified themes relevant to role...
2015-11-04 Explaining differences in education-related inequalities in health between urban and rural areas in Mongolia.
After the socioeconomic transition in 1990, Mongolia has been experiencing demographic and epidemiologic transitions; however, there is lack of evidence on socioeconomic-related inequality in health across the country. The aim of this paper is to evaluate the...
Who is bearing the financial burden of non-communicable diseases in Mongolia?
Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) pose a formidable health and development challenge for low-and middle-income countries. However, translating this challenge into resource allocation is seriously constrained by a lack of country specific evidence on NCD financing and...
2nd SPARKS meeting
The Social Protection Action Research Knowledge Sharing (SPARKS) aims to establish global, interdisciplinary research network that will facilitate action-oriented research on the public health impact of social protection, with a main focus on low- and middle-income...