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Big Tobacco Continues to Thrive off Health-Harming Products

Big Tobacco Continues to Thrive off Health-Harming Products

Tobacco, alcohol, and sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) industries showed strong financial performance during and after the pandemic, despite initial setbacks. Experts urge raising health taxes to curb consumption and offset industry resistance. This blog post was first...

P4H Political Economy Tool: An approach to enhanced partnership

P4H Political Economy Tool: An approach to enhanced partnership

Cambodia, Cameroon

The P4H Network created a political economy framework to help P4H country focal persons (P4H-CFPs) advance social health protection (SHP) and health financing (HF) reforms. Piloted in Cambodia and Cameroon in 2023, it aids P4H-CFPs in understanding national political...

Social Protection for Health and Wellbeing

Social Protection for Health and Wellbeing

Universal health coverage (UHC) and universal social protection (USP) are complementary objectives embedded in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. With only few years left to meet the SDG targets, it is urgent to strengthen those synergies. Health and...

Realising sustainable financing for primary health care in Tanzania

Realising sustainable financing for primary health care in Tanzania

Tanzania, United Republic of

Tanzania prioritizes primary health care for Universal Health Coverage, achieving progress in reducing under-five and maternal mortality. However, neonatal mortality stagnates. Despite financing challenges, Tanzania progresses towards sustainable health financing,...

Key highlights from the 2023 Montreux Collaborative meeting

Key highlights from the 2023 Montreux Collaborative meeting

The 6th meeting of the WHO Montreux Collaborative on Fiscal Space, Public Financial Management and Health Financing[1] was held in Montreux, Switzerland from 14-16 November 2023.  High-level finance and health-ministry representatives, development partners, and...

Is Health Financing Gender Biased?

Is Health Financing Gender Biased?

We take for granted the way health programs are financed—and often forget that there are biases in financing functions that undermine equitable access to health care. For instance, through gender advances, women now decide on contraceptive use and childbearing. Yet...

Ever-growing health expenditure and mandatory social health insurance: what’s next? – Part 3 of a 3-part series

Ever-growing health expenditure and mandatory social health insurance: what’s next? – Part 3 of a 3-part series

Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Estonia, Kyrgyzstan, Russian Federation, Armenia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Belarus, Georgia, Latvia, Ukraine, Republic of Moldova, Lithuania, Mongolia

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Ever-growing health expenditure and mandatory social health insurance: what’s next? – Part 2 of a 3-part series

Ever-growing health expenditure and mandatory social health insurance: what’s next? – Part 2 of a 3-part series

Kazakhstan, Estonia, Azerbaijan, Kyrgyzstan, Russian Federation, Armenia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Belarus, Georgia, Latvia, Ukraine, Republic of Moldova, Lithuania, Mongolia

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Ever-growing health expenditure and mandatory social health insurance: what’s next? – Part 1 of a 3-part series

Ever-growing health expenditure and mandatory social health insurance: what’s next? – Part 1 of a 3-part series

Kazakhstan, Estonia, Azerbaijan, Kyrgyzstan, Russian Federation, Armenia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Belarus, Georgia, Latvia, Ukraine, Republic of Moldova, Lithuania, Mongolia

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