Technical Note on Health System Financing in Colombia
The National Association of Colombian Businessmen (ANDI) and the Colombian Association of Integral Medicine Companies (ACEMI) presented a technical note to contribute to the debate on the financing of the healthcare system and its sustainability.The health system in...
Funding from the Ministry of Health of Argentina in the framework of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Ministry of Health of Argentina implemented several interventions in 2020, with the objective of expanding the response capacity of the Health System.Investments were made in the operational capacity of the provinces, complementing the investments made by the...
Health Financial Protection before and during COVID-19 in Paraguay
An analysis is presented from the perspective of excessive, catastrophic and impoverishing out-of-pocket expenses in the National Health System.Public health spending as a percentage of Gross Domestic Product was equal to 1.8% between 2000 and 2009 and 2.8% between...
Financing of Universal Health Coverage in Paraguay
In Paraguay, 49.4% of total healthcare spending came from people's pockets, in 2017. For the population in the poorest income quintile, this represented a high proportion of household income.The budget of the Ministry of Public Health and Social Welfare grew at an...
Federal Health Insurance Fund of the Russian Federation reported its performance outcomces for 2023
The Mandatory Health Insurance Fund of Russia reported about its activities in 2024, summarizing it has fullt fulfilled it social health protection obligations. Actual MHIF budget revenues last year amounted to 3 trillion 290 billion rubles, while its expenses were 3...
Afghanistan National Health Accounts 2020
The Afghanistan National Health Accounts 2020 report highlights significant reliance on international funding, urgent need for domestic investment, and disparities in healthcare access across regions.The Afghanistan National Health Accounts 2020 details the economic...
Afghanistan National Health Accounts 2021
The Afghanistan National Health Accounts 2021 report reveals a critical underfunding in healthcare, stressing an urgent need for increased domestic and international investment to improve public health infrastructure and services.The Afghanistan National Health...
Afghanistan Health Financing Strategy 2019-2023
The Health Financing Strategy 2019-2023 serves to guide the Afghanistan health sector to strategically address major financing gaps to become more responsive to the health needs of the population.The Afghanistan Health Financing Strategy (AHFS) 2019-2023 was designed...
National Health Policy 2017
The National Health Policy 2017 has been formulated to address the current and emerging challenges necessitated by the changing socio-economic and epidemiological landscapes in IndiaThe primary aim of the National Health Policy 2017 is to inform, clarify, strengthen...
Kyrgyzstan’s Mandatory Health Insurance Fund explained that citizens of the Eurasian Economic Union are automatically covered
The Mandatory Health Insurance Fund of Kyrgyzstan has explained that citizens of the Russian Federation, the Republic of Kazakhstan, Belarus and Armenia, member-countries of the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU), who arrived and work legally in Kyrgyzstan, are considered...
World Bank: Affordable health services to 1.5 billion people by 2030
Focus on improved affordability, expanded geographic reach, and increased scope of services are the goals set at this year's spring meeting in collaboration with the WHO.This initiative is part of a broader effort to ensure a basic standard of care throughout every...
Zanzibar develops and endorses health services fund bill
The Zanzibar Health Services Fund Act, 2023, ensures universal health coverage in Tanzania by introducing mandatory health insurance with household contributions. Supported by GIZ BACKUP Health and P4H Network, it aims to improve healthcare provision and reduce...
Michelin sets up a “decent wage” for all employees around the world
French company, Michelin's announcement of implementing 'universal social protection floor' to benefit employees in all its countries of operation is an example of private sector engagement in driving social health protection. In a recent article published by Les...
ADB and Global Fund join forces to strengthen health systems and advance UHC
Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (Global Fund) have signed a memorandum of understanding to cooperate on resource mobilization for the effective delivery of health services to vulnerable populations in Asia and...
Research on the out-of-pocket health expenditures in Kazakhstan from 2018 to 2021
A research article titled "An analysis of financial protection and financing incidence of out-of-pocket health expenditures in Kazakhstan from 2018 to 2021" was published by Shaltynov et al. was published on 17 April 2024. Their work assessed a trend in out-of-pocket...