Long-term care financing: lessons for low- and middle-income settings: brief 10
The World Health Organization Centre for Health Development's tenth brief on long-term care financing explores a crucial aspect of caregiving in low- and middle-income settings: the role of informal caregivers. As the backbone of long-term care (LTC) systems, informal...
Global collaboration to strengthen pandemic preparedness
IMF, World Bank, and WHO agree to intensify efforts to support global health security through increased financing and technical expertise. The International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank Group (WBG), and the World Health Organization (WHO) are enhancing their...
World Bank investment framework for Nutrition 2024
The World Bank's Investment Framework for Nutrition 2024 outlines a strategic plan to address global malnutrition and rising obesity rates. Despite improvements, malnutrition remains widespread, with 148 million children still affected by stunting and obesity,...
The future of funding mental healthcare
Miranda Wolpert envisions a revolution in mental health funding and care, highlighting innovations and the need for over $200 billion in investment to improve access for nearly one billion people worldwide. In her recent opinion piece for Stat, Miranda Wolpert,...
Scaling up departmental health insurance units in Senegal: A mixed-method study
The article titled "Scaling Up Departmental Health Insurance Units in Senegal: A Mixed-Method Study," authored by Valéry Ridde, Mouhamadou Faly Ba, Babacar Kane, Anouk Chouaïd, and Adama Faye, and published in the Journal of Health Systems and Reform, examines the...
Costs of healthcare for scabies and related skin infections in Fiji, 2018–2019
A recent study published in PLOS Global Public Health examines the economic burden of scabies and related skin infections in Fiji. The article, titled "Costs of primary healthcare presentations and hospital admissions for scabies and related skin infections in Fiji,...
Predictors of unmet healthcare needs among people with type 2 diabetes in Sri Lanka
The study 'Predictors of unmet needs among people with diabetes mellitus type 2 in Gampaha district of Sri Lanka' published in PLOS Global Public Health investigates the predictors of unmet healthcare needs among individuals with type 2 diabetes mellitus in the...
Record 2024 health budget in Guyana supports UHC
In Guyana, public budget covered over 65% of current health expenditure in 2021. The national budget in 2024 continued that positive trend, by allocating a record $129.8 billion.The 2024 national budget allocated a record $129.8 billion for health in Guyana. Although...
Health aid declines signal urgent need for renewed investment
According to an analysis by ONE.org, health aid fell to a 13-year low in 2021, jeopardising global health advancements. As funding priorities shift after COVID-19, there is an urgent need to reprioritise health investments. An analysis from ONE.org reveals a...
Connecting the dots for leveraging quality data in health care in Africa and Asia
The report 'Connecting the Dots: Quality-of-Care Data for Purchasing Primary Health Care in Burkina Faso, Kenya, the Philippines, and Uganda', published by ThinkWell, explores the critical role of quality-of-care data in enhancing purchasing decisions for primary...
Social Protection Policy 2025-2029 of Guinea-Bissau
Social Protection Policy (PNPS) of Guinea-Bissau, concretizes the government's commitment to strengthening the mechanisms for protecting Guineans against the risks that threaten their right to a dignified life, free from the fear of hunger and the access to essential...
Bandim Health Project report
Technical appendix to the policy brief ‘Mortality of women and children, coverage of essential maternal and child health services and out-of-pocket payments in rural Guinea-Bissau during PIMI III’: Report delivered to the Delegation of the European Union...
Estonian Health Insurance Fund published its 2023 annual report
The Health Insurance Fund of Estonia, folloing best practices in management, has published its annual reports since 2002 to in its webpage here. The latest annual report for year 2023 is available in English language. Foreword by the Executive board of the Health...
Health Fund in Africa raises $100 million to enhance healthcare access
The Transform Health Fund has raised $111 million to improve healthcare in Africa, focusing on innovative health models. It aims to enhance access to care for vulnerable communities across the continent. On October 3, 2024, AfricInvest and the Health Finance Coalition...
Policy paper on a landscape analysis of conditioned domestic ‘co-financing’
The Center for Global Development's policy paper, "Conditioned Domestic 'Co-financing' Policies in Global Health: A Landscape Analysis," provides an in-depth examination of co-financing policies in global health. These policies, which refer to the domestic financing...