The many documents available on the P4H Network’s digital platform reflect 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).
The collection provides information on SHP and/or HF reforms and universal health coverage processes from around the world as well as topical analysis and research.
The impact of Nigeria’s Saving One Million Lives Programme for Results
Nigeria's Saving One Million Lives Programme for Results (SOML-PforR), launched with World Bank support significantly improved maternal, newborn, and child health by emphasizing results-based funding, transparency, and data-driven decision-making, showcasing a...
National Health Act 2014
The 2014 National Health Act provides a comprehensive framework for the regulation, development, and management of Nigeria's health system. This significant piece of legislation sets new standards for delivering health services across the country, aiming to enhance...
Nigeria National Health Insurance Authority Act 2022
In 2022, Nigeria enacted the 2022 National Health Insurance Act, marking a pivotal step towards comprehensive healthcare reform. The new legislation ensures that every Nigerian can access affordable and quality health services. Key highlights of the Act include:...
Leveraging Nigeria’s sugar tax to finance surgical care: a political economy analysis
A recent peer-reviewed study reveals the potential of a sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) tax to significantly enhance healthcare financing in Nigeria. The study utilized a mixed-methods political economy analysis, including a robust modeling exercise to predict the...
Reconciling devolution with health financing and public financial management: challenges and policy options for the health sector
Effective devolution, health financing, and public financial management are crucial for advancing universal health coverage, and targeted policy solutions can address existing challenges in these areas across seven Asian and African countries. This paper published in...
Examining multiple funding flows to public healthcare providers in Burkina Faso, Kenya, Morocco, Nigeria, Tunisia and Vietnam
This study examines multiple funding flows and describes the potential effect of multiple payment streams on healthcare provider behaviour in low- and middle-income countries.Findings from case studies conducted in Burkina Faso, Kenya, Morocco, Nigeria, Tunisia, and...
COVID-19 purchasing adjustments: Insights from 8 middle-income countries
Journal of Health Policy and Planning (Oxford University Press) article examines COVID-19's impact on health purchasing in eight middle-income countries, revealing adjustments in benefit packages and payment methods amid financing challenges and concerns about...
Health financing policies during the COVID-19 pandemic and implications for universal health care
A research paper published in the December 2023 Issue of the Lancet Global Health on how 15 countries responded to the COVID-19 pandemic through their health financing policies. The paper has been co-authored by Aungsumalee Pholpark, Community Facilitator for the Asia...
Strategic health purchasing in Nigeria: Exploring the evidence on health system and service delivery improvements
Global commitment to achieving universal health coverage (UHC) has led to increasing attention on health purchasing. Purchasing is one of the key health financing functions that provides the critical link between resources mobilized for health and the effective...
Examining healthcare purchasing arrangements for strategic purchasing in Nigeria: a case study of the Imo state healthcare system
Purchasing is a critical function of health financing which links resources mobilized in the health sector to effective delivery of quality healthcare services. Strategic purchasing therefore can help a country improve financial risk protection for the vulnerable...
The Lancet Nigeria Commission: investing in health and the future of the nation
Health is central to the development of any country. Most countries including Nigeria have committed to provide access to quality health care without the financial burden to its population to ensure health for all. However, major obstacles still persist among them...
Strategic Health Purchasing in Nigeria: Investigating Governance and Institutional Capacities within Federal Tax-Funded Health Schemes and the Formal Sector Social Health Insurance Programme
Strategic purchasing has the potential of increasing equity in access to quality services and ensuring financial protection through deliberate effort to purchase services with the best value for money. This study examines the purchasing arrangements in schemes funded...
Supporting strategic health purchasing: a case study of annual health budgets from General Tax Revenue and Social Health Insurance in Abia State, Nigeria
The recent health financing reforms in Nigeria such as the Basic Healthcare Provision Fund (BHCPF) and state-supported Social Health Insurance (SHI) schemes recognize the critical roles of state governments and related agencies in defining, deciding, implementing, and...
The Implications of health financing for health access and equity in Nigeria
Health financing is an important function of the health system and plays a key role in enabling progress towards Universal Health Coverage by improving effective service coverage and ensuring adequate financial protection from impoverishment arising from health...
Strategic purchasing for universal health coverage (UHC): examining the purchaser–provider relationship within a social health insurance scheme in Nigeria
Recognising how important purchasing is in social health insurance, this study critically assesses purchasing arrangements between Nigeria’s national health insurance scheme, health maintenance organisations and healthcare providers. It determines how the arrangements...