Households forgoing healthcare as a measure of financial risk protection: an application to Liberia
This paper explores financial risk associated with access to healthcare services in Liberia. It also proposes a method to complement the standard financial risk protection measures in the WHO/World Bank global monitoring framework for Universal Health Coverage (UHC)....
WHO Country Office has initiated to develop the concept note on the high-level policy dialogue on health financing for pandemic preparedness
WHO together with the P4H country focal person initiated the preparation of a concept note for conducting a high-level policy dialogue on health financing for pandemic preparedness with technical inputs from the P4H Coordination Desk. The draft concept note was shared...
Deliberations on the guidance notes for national budgetary dialogue as well as the relevance for health financing and COVID-19 work was discussed with the Health Economics and Financial Analysis team
The WHO together with the P4H country focal person conducted a meeting with technical staff of the Health Economics and Financial Analysis team to deliberate the relevance of the guidance note as well as work around COVID-19 and health financing. The guidance note was...
The P4H CFP undertakes activities to develop joint ownership with the development partners on national budgetary dialogue
October 2021 – March 2022 WHO together with the P4H country focal person held discussions with Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) UK, Oxford Policy Management (OPM) and the World Bank, in particular how a high-level policy dialogue between the...
Ethiopia considers to conduct a high-level policy dialogue around health financing for pandemic preparedness
In the continued dialogue with MOH on health financing for COVID-19, it was discussed that the numerous pieces of work conducted in the country along with the learnings from COVID-19 and other health emergencies now presents an opportunity for the country to conduct...
The process guide for national budgetary dialogue was introduced to the P4H Country Focal Person in Ethiopia
The ACT-A Health System Connector – Process Guidance for National Budgetary Dialogue was introduced by the P4H Coordination Desk in a (virtual) meeting with the P4H Ethiopia Country Focal Person (CFP). The P4H Coordination Desk explained the importance as well as the...
Strengths and weaknesses of strategic health purchasing for Universal Health Coverage in Rwanda
Rwanda in part attributes its progress toward Universal Health Coverage (UHC) to the implementation of Community Based Health Insurance (CBHI). Some evidence shows that in Rwanda, CBHI has led to increases in health service utilization and better financial protection...
Exploring for-profit healthcare providers’ perceptions of inclusion in the Zambia National Health Insurance Scheme: A qualitative content analysis
In 2019, Zambia introduced the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) as a healthcare financing strategy to increase universal access to health care services and ensure financial risk protection. The NHI Management Authority is exploring accrediting the private for...
Strategic Health Purchasing in Nigeria: Investigating Governance and Institutional Capacities within Federal Tax-Funded Health Schemes and the Formal Sector Social Health Insurance Programme
Strategic purchasing has the potential of increasing equity in access to quality services and ensuring financial protection through deliberate effort to purchase services with the best value for money. This study examines the purchasing arrangements in schemes funded...
Strategic health purchasing progress mapping: a spotlight on Ghana’s National Health Insurance Scheme
Since the introduction of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) in 2003, the enrolment rate has increased to 40% of the population and has significantly contributed to increased health service utilization and decreasing out-of-pocket payments and catastrophic...
Uzbekistan chairs the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and hosts Health Ministers’ meeting
Tashkent hosted the fifth meeting of the Ministers of Health of Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) member states chaired by Uzbekistan. The Minister of Health of Uzbekistan Bekhzod Musaev and the SCO Secretary General Zhang Ming addressed the participants with a...
Tajikistan is to introduce health insurance for the working
According to the Ministry of Labour, Migration and Employment of Tajikistan , the country is considering and discussing with WHO the introduction of compulsory health insurance for employees of organizations and enterprises of the country. Health insurance reform was...
Amended law will speed up healthcare reforms in Kenya
As part of the President Uhuru Kenyatta’s Big Four agenda, the Kenyan government put in place several strategies to facilitate the realisation of Universal Health Coverage (UHC). One of the strategies chosen was the introduction of the National Health Insurance Fund...
P4H CFP in engagement with the Ministry of Health in Ethiopia to discuss the guidance note for national budgetary dialogue
The WHO together with the P4H country focal person discussed the guidance note for national budgetary dialogue with the Partnership and Cooperation Directorate (PCD), Ministry of Health, Ethiopia. Discussions were also conducted on the ongoing work financing for...
The influence of the National Health Insurance scheme of the Lao People’s Democratic Republic on healthcare access and catastrophic health expenditures for patients with chronic renal disease
Lao People’s Democratic Republic has implemented the National Health Insurance (NHI) since 2016. Recently, haemodialysis has been included under the benefit package of the NHI scheme. This study aims to analyze the effects of NHI on accessibility and catastrophic...