Health insurance coverage: the Peruvian case from the Universal Insurance Law
The document shows the evolution of health insurance coverage (CAS) in Peru for the period 2009-2017. It also evaluates the main associated demographic, social and economic factors, using a secondary analysis of the National Household Survey. For each year, they...
Law 29761 on public financing of the subsidized and semi-contributory regimes of Universal Health Insurance in Peru.
The Essential Health Insurance Plan (PEAS) of the subsidized and semi-contributory systems is financed with resources from budgetary appropriations and contributions. Budgetary appropriations are allocated annually to the Comprehensive Health Insurance based on the...
New documents available on Peru’s country page
New documents available on the Peru country page / Nuevos documentos disponibles en la página país de Perú
2022 National Health Insurance Bill
The National Health Insurance Bill of 2022 follows the national health insurance acts of 2006 and 2017. Among other things, this new bill brings together public and private clinical practices under a common financing structure, and establishes a standard health...
P4H Annual Review 2021-2022
The 2022 Annual Review marks a milestone for the P4H Network: 15 years ago from its founding at the 2007 G8 Summit at Heiligendamm. Since then, P4H has refocused its value proposition to help enhance members’ contributions to universal health coverage (UHC), worked to...
P4H Annual Review 2021-2022 FINAL
The P4H Annual Review 2021-2022 marks a milestone for the P4H Network: 15 years ago the P4H Network was founded at the 2007 G8 Summit at Heiligendamm. Since then, P4H has refocused its value proposition to help enhance members’ contributions to universal health...
17-21.10.2022 – L4UHC Regional Module in Bangkok
Fruitful week in Bangkok! The Cambodian team focused on the topic of “strengthening the referral system” and acknowledged the importance of a strong primary care for a well performing health system. The next step is to get in touch with stakeholders involved in...
Health financing in Peru: Analysis of the current situation and policy challenges to 2021
Peru faces the challenge of the financial transition of its health system, which consists of replacing a scheme highly dependent on out-of-pocket spending to a pooled system where health system users use pre-payment systems and/or health insurance to share the...
Social protection systems in Latin America and the Caribbean: Chile
The document presents a review of the different social protection systems in Chile, and Chapter VI analyzes the health system, indicating that the 2004 Law establishes the Explicit Health Guarantees (GES) as guarantees of the state health system. In 2005, an initial...
Explicit health guarantees in Chile: the AUGE benefit plan
The Universal Access with Explicit Guarantees (AUGE) benefit plan initially defined a basic plan for social health insurance in 2006, consisting of guaranteed and explicit treatments for 56 priority health conditions. In 2010, it was expanded to 69 and subsequently...
The pending health care reform in Chile: Reflections on a proposal for the transformation of the system.
Although Chile achieved positive overall health results at the regional level, this country maintains a health system segmented by risk and income, which stands out for its levels of inequity. A presidential commission commission commissioned in 2014 posed two...
Ministry of Public Health presents National Health Plan 2022-2032 for the Dominican Republic
The National Health Plan 2022-2032 seeks to characterize a joint vision between social security and other entities that make up the health system in the Dominican Republic. It proposes to provide health insurance to the 278 municipalities, which are the main actors of...
New documents available on Chile’s country page
New documents available on the Chile country page / Nuevos documentos disponibles en la página país de Chile
P4H Annual Review 2021-2022 – Annex
MoH of Ukraine published financial and budget reports for 2021
On October 20, 2022, the Ministry of Health of Ukraine published annual financial and budget reports for the past year of 2021 on its website. Publishing healthcare financing reports is a good practice for transparency and public accountability. Among the documents...