Country pages for the Republic of Korea and Thailand now have timelines for national health financing reforms. Visit each country page to see a summarized history of health financing policies and more resources.
The P4H Network is excited to announce the new country timeline for health financing reform feature on p4h.world. This feature follows the introduction of the timelines on the France country page. The Republic of Korea and Thailand are the next, among the many country pages on p4h.world, to display this feature. Both countries have unique strategies for expanding population coverage and have undergone remarkable reforms that represent milestones towards universal health coverage (UHC) and social health protection (SHP). The most recent updates reach 2020 in the Republic of Korea and 2021 in Thailand.
Juhyeon Moon, P4H country focal person (P4H-CFP) for the Republic of Korea, and Somtanuek Chotchoungchatchai, P4H-CFP for Thailand, worked together with the P4H Coordination Desk to design and implement a timeline template that could be applied to timelines of other countries. Aungsumalee Pholpark, community facilitator for the Western Pacific Region, and Elisabetta Tomassini, website manager, made additional valuable contributions.
The original country pages provided country-specific summaries, key indicators, articles on current events and key documents. However, most countries have long and complex histories of reform that are difficult to express at a glance. Therefore, a timeline template was created to address chronological and structural changes that lay people, policymakers or researchers alike can follow. Careful documentation and continual feedback helped to group key chronological moments into five categories. Each moment contains an explanatory single-line description and is color-coded by reform category. The five categories are governance, social health protection, population coverage, benefit coverage and payment, and long-term care. These categories cover policy values and targets of UHC and SHP.
Timelines for other countries and ongoing updates are planned.
