The number of documents available on the P4H Network’s digital platform reflects the network’s scope of work. The majority of documents are primary source materials created by country nationals or resources produced by organizations working in social health protection (SHP) and/or health financing (HF).
ILO country brief on Social Protection in Mongolia
This country brief for Mongolia by the International Labour Organization (ILO), Social Protection Department, is extracted from ILO’s report: “Extending social health protection: Accelerating progress towards Universal Health Coverage in Asia and the Pacific”. The...
Law of Mongolia “On Health Insurance” (2015)
The purpose of this law is to establish the principles and scope of compulsory health insurance in Mongolia, to ensure that every citizen of Mongolia is insured and pays premiums for health insurance in accordance with the law. The law also aims to create a fund to...
A study assessed the potential cost-effectiveness of HPV vaccination among girls in Mongolia
As reported by the study titled "The Potential Cost-Effectiveness of HPV Vaccination Among Girls in Mongolia" , HPV vaccination has not been introduced nationally and Gavi co-financing support is not available in Mongolia. To inform introduction decision-making, study...
Supporting Health-Care Financing Reform in Mongolia: Experiences, Lessons Learned, and Future Directions
Mongolia's healthcare financing reform has introduced health insurance and shifted to an output-oriented model, aligning with a market economy. The Asian Development Bank’s support offers valuable lessons for other countries in the region. The Asian Development Bank’...
Strengthening health system financing in the context of COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused a double shock – health and economic. Strengthening health financing systems has been a stressful task, not only for developing countries but also for developed countries. This study compares the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the...
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The Mongolian Health System at a Crossroads. An incomplete Transition to a Post Semashko Model
This paper examines health system reform in Mongolia. It concludes that Mongolia’s health system is in disarray, but not for lack of money.The traditional approach to increase funding to the health sector will not significantly improve the health system in Mongolia as...
Assessment of Systems for Paying Health care Providers in Mongolia: Implications for Equity, Efficiency and Universal Health Coverage
The Mongolia Provider Payment Assessment was carried out jointly by the Ministry of Health, the Joint Learning Network, the World Bank and the World Health Organization.
Leaving no one behind in the context of subnational health system strengthening in Mongolia.
The present publication accompanies the capacity-building activities being conducted on leaving no one behind in the context of sub-national health system strengthening in Mongolia. It was piloted during the last quarter of 2016 through a process involving workshops...
2005-11-04 Development of social health insurance in Mongolia: Successes, challenges and lessons
This paper examines the process of developing social health insurance in Mongolia during 1994-2004, and its successes, challenges and lessons. The development of compulsory health insurance in Mongolia shows that a prepaid health insurance mechanism based on risk...
2009-08-11 Health promotion financing with Mongolia’s social health insurance
Health promotion is receiving more attention in Mongolia. A survey is undertaken to examine health promotion in terms of health-related information, education, counseling, screening, and preventive and medical checkups. There are several factors that limit the...
2016-02-16 Social health insurance development in Mongolia: Opportunities and challenges in moving towards Universal Health Coverage
This paper is the second paper that reviews social health insurance development in Mongolia during 2005-2015. The first paper from 2005 reviewed mandatory health insurance development during 1994-2004. During these years, health insurance brought many new features for...
2016-11-07 Catastrophic health expenditure and impoverishment in Mongolia
The aim of this study was to analyze the incidence of catastrophic health expenditures and to measure the rate of impoverishment from health care payments under the social health insurance scheme in Mongolia. Data from the 2012 Household Socio-Economic Survey was...
2016-04-17 The Adoption of Roles by Primary Care Providers during Implementation of the New Chronic Disease Guideleines in Urban Mongolia.
This study aimed to analyse the roles that different primary care providers adopted, and the variations in these, in the implementation of the guidelines in urban Mongolia. Data was analysed usinga thematic approach based on the identified themes relevant to role...
2015-11-04 Explaining differences in education-related inequalities in health between urban and rural areas in Mongolia.
After the socioeconomic transition in 1990, Mongolia has been experiencing demographic and epidemiologic transitions; however, there is lack of evidence on socioeconomic-related inequality in health across the country. The aim of this paper is to evaluate the...