Why PFM is Key for the Effective Roll Out of COVID-19 Vaccines
Written by Hélène Barroy, Federica Margini, Triin Habicht, Tomas Roubal, Peter Cowley and Joseph Kutzin As COVID-19 vaccines are rolled out globally, the number one question for many low-and-middle income countries is how much it is going to cost to procure...
Impact of COVID-19 on health care utilization and medical expenditure in the Republic of Korea in 2020
Written by Eunkyoung Kim and Tomas Roubal The Republic of Korea (ROK) has been regarded as one of successful countries in their response to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). As of 28 April 2021, ROK has reported 120,673 cumulative confirmed COVID-19 cases...
Universal health coverage and COVID-19 preparedness and response in Asia and the Pacific
Authors: Soonman KWON and Eunkyoung KIM Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has disrupted all aspects of our global society and economies and progress towards universal health coverage (UHC), further worsening structural fragilities and deepening inequalities (1)....
Lessons from Rapid Implementation: how the revamped system to purchase COVID services in Indonesia affected its hospitals
The authors: Dr Anooj Pattnaik (ThinkWell Global, Deputy Director for Learning), Ryan Nugraha (ThinkWell Indonesia), Prof. Hasbullah Thabrany (ThinkWell Indonesia), and Catherine Connor (Program Director at ThinkWell). The spread of COVID-19 around the world has...
Universal Health Coverage in the United Kingdom
Click here to download the complete article as a PDF document. 1. Context of Health Coverage in the United KingdomThe UK National Health Service (NHS) was founded in 1948 and remains the dominant system of health coverage today. It is financed primarily...
If you’re not ready, you need to adapt: lessons for managing public finances from the COVID-19 response
Hélène Barroy, Federica Margini, Joseph Kutzin (Word Health Organization), Nirmala Ravishankar (ThinkWell), Moritz Piatti-Fünfkirchen (World Bank Group), Srinivas Gurazada (PEFA), Chris James (OECD) COVID-19 has been a well-recognized stress test for public financial...
Adjustments to the procurement of health services as part of the response to COVID-19: Results of a brief survey and lessons for the future
By Inke Mathauer, Fahdi Dkhimi, Matthew Townsend World Health Organization The full report is available here. COVID-19 continues to have a devastating impact on healthcare systems, and countries around the world are reconfiguring the delivery of healthcare services to...
Leveraging the strengths of a mixed purchasing system for COVID-19: a perspective from Indonesia
Leveraging the strengths of a mixed purchasing system for COVID-19: a perspective from Indonesia Anooj Pattnaik, Deputy Director for Learning www.ThinkWell.global Prastuti Soewondo, Country Director, ThinkWell Indonesia Nadhila Adani, Analyst, ThinkWell Indonesia...
Adjustments in health purchasing as part of the COVID-19 health response: results of a short survey and lessons for the future
by Inke Mathauer, Fahdi Dkhimi, Matthew Townsend Department of Health Systems Governance and Financing, World Health Organization The full report can be found here. COVID-19 continues to have a tremendous impact on health systems, with countries around the world...
Financing autonomous hospitals (yes, another lesson from COVID-19)
Health systems around the world are being shaken to their foundations by the COVID-19 pandemic. By shedding light on latent risks or problems of which we were unaware, the crisis represents a major test for our analytical frameworks, the way we have structured our...
Financing the existence of autonomous hospitals (Yes, another lesson from COVID-19)
Across the globe, health systems are being shaken on their foundations by the COVID-19 pandemic. By shedding light on risks or latent problems we were not aware of, the crisis constitutes a major test for our frameworks, the way we have structured our learning...
Toward Strategic Purchasing: Management of Multiple Schemes and Purchasing Decisions by the Cambodian National Social Security Fund
Disclaimer: This study is published by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, which is a WHO Collaborating Centre; it is not a publication of the World Health Organization. The Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit...
Purchasing health services to respond to COVID-19 – how to involve and contract private sector providers in the South-East Asia Region?
By Ms. Tsolmongerel Tsilaajav; Dr. Inke Mathauer and Dr. Valeria de Oliveira Cruz Thus far, most countries of the South-East Asia Region (SEAR) COVID-19 confirmed cases have occured in clusters. [1] Many governments in the region have relied by and large on...
The COVID-19 crisis is a good opportunity to align Burkina Faso’s health financing systems: let’s not waste it!
The COVID-19 crisis offers Burkina Faso the opportunity to implement a more coherent approach to health financing. All eyes are currently on the healthcare system because of the COVID-19 crisis, and at the heart of the response to this COVID-19 crisis lies Burkina...
How COVID-19 reshapes priorities for both national resources and development aid in the health sector
"This is a joint blog post, written on behalf of the CSU2030 core team as well as partners engaged in the Sustainable Health Financing Accelerator." The COVID-19 pandemic swept the world, reshaping the global health landscape and triggering an economic crisis deeper...