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Singapore Health Minister says share of national health expenditure increased to 46% but doesn’t say it’s far below OECD’s average.
In the past eight years Singapore has consistently increased the share of health in the national budget by and average of 1.2% from 2013 onwards. In Parliament, Health Minister Gan Kim Yong assured the House that primary healthcare will be strengthened...
Семинар, посвященный представлению результатов исследования: “Политическая экономика CSU в Буркина-Фасо: точки зрения партий и приоритеты исследований”.
Компания Recherche pour la Santé et Développement (RESADE) в сотрудничестве с Университетом Королевы Маргарет (Великобритания) провела исследование с целью анализа места и проблем использования политэкономического анализа в политике и практике универсального...
Workshop to present the results of the study: “Economie politique de la CSU au Burkina Faso: points de vue des parties prenantes et priorités de recherche”.
Recherche pour la Santé et Développement (RESADE) in collaboration with Queen Margaret University (Great Britain) conducted a study to analyze the place and challenges of using political economy analysis in Universal Health Coverage (UHC) policies and practices, as...
Workshop to present the results of the study: “Economie politique de la CSU au Burkina Faso: points de vue des parties prenantes et priorités de recherche”.
Recherche pour la Santé et Développement (RESADE) in collaboration with Queen Margaret University (Great Britain) conducted a study to analyze the place and challenges of using political economy analysis in Universal Health Coverage (UHC) policies and practices, as...
Minister of Health meets with development partners to promote external support to government priorities
The Minister of Health, Armindo Daniel Tiago, met on 16th April, 2021 with health development partners to take stock of external support in defined priority areas. The Minister exposed the priorities for this period, being the most relevant i) The project to...
![Hungary Reaches 3 Million Vaccinations, Reopening Continues?](https://p4h.world/app/uploads/2023/03/hungary_april_2021-1.x23411.jpg)
Hungary Reaches 3 Million Vaccinations, Reopening Continues?
Hungary has now reached 3 million vaccinations against the coronavirus, and despite infections and deaths remaining high, talks of further reopening are underway. The United Kingdom is also continuing its reopening, but its conditions appear much safer than the...
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Mass testing for COVID-19 in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia: “One door-one test” approach
In response to the recent increase of COVID 19, the Mongolian government initiated a mass testing campaign, the so-called “One door-one test” (ODOT), which utilised PCR assays to test one family member (age>18) from each of the 420,000 households in the capital...
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Burkina Faso inaugurates its first radiotherapy center
With a capacity to treat 1,500 patients a year, the center will be able to treat a number of cancers on site, including cervical, prostate, lung, rectal, esophageal and stomach cancers, according to the Ministry of Health. A radiotherapy center built by the State of...
![Over $ 1.1 bn to Extend Australia’s Covid 19 Health Response](https://p4h.world/app/uploads/2023/03/1560400712650_0.x23411.png)
Over $ 1.1 bn to Extend Australia’s Covid 19 Health Response
The Australian Government invests more than $1.1 billion to extend their successful national COVID-19 health response and suppression strategy until 31 December 2021. This $1.1 billion is in addition to more than $22 billion spent in these areas to date,...
![Deferment of Labour Codes delays health & income security to gig workers in India](https://p4h.world/app/uploads/2023/03/saad-chaudhry-oxbmfxsewsy-unsplash1-1-scaled.x23411.jpg)
Deferment of Labour Codes delays health & income security to gig workers in India
Furthering the agenda of labour empowerment, India consolidated 29 central labour laws into four codes - The Industrial Relations Code, 2020, the Code on Social Security, 2020, the Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code, 2020, and the Code on Wages,...
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Right based approach to UHC in Rajasthan, India
In the last decade, the increasing cost of care and consequent impoverishment of those seeking medical treatment added momentum to the debate on ‘Right to Health’ by demanding universal health coverage (UHC) to build societal resilience to the devastating impacts of...
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2021 Health sector gets 32 percent more budget compared to previous year
The Nepal government has allocated Rs 90.69 billion for the health sector for the upcoming fiscal year, around 32 percent more than previous fiscal when Rs 68.78 billion was set aside under the heading. Although the health sector’s share of the pie has increased to...
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Budget 2021: Rs 18Bn to be allocated for Maintaining Health Services
Sri Lankan Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa announced a boost to the public health sector in light of the extended needs demanded by the COVID-19 Pandemic. He allocated an additional Rs. 18bn for expansion of health facilities to tackle COVID-19 and resultant health...
![Thailand: B205bn health budget agreed](https://p4h.world/app/uploads/2023/03/1560400712650-1.x23411.png)
Thailand: B205bn health budget agreed
The Thai cabinet approved an increase in the universal healthcare budget for 2022 to 205 billion baht, 4.4% higher than this year. Under the new budget, health coverage will reach 47.9 million people in the universal healthcare scheme, meaning an increase to just...
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Millions of Australians facing another private health insurance price hike
Almost 14 million Australians with private health insurance will face a price hike come April 1 – the second in just six months. The federal government will also decrease its rebate slightly from 25.059 per cent for under 65s on the base tier...