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.
Reproductive health financing in Uganda: results from the national health account study, 2019–2021
Uganda has made significant strides in its journey to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by enhancing the health and survival of women and children during pregnancy, childbirth, and adolescence. This effort began in 2013 with the development of the first...
Exploring the facilitators and barriers to achieving universal health coverage in Uganda: a qualitative study of the free healthcare policy
Published in Health Research Policy and Systems by BMC (part of Springer Nature), this qualitative study titled "Exploring the facilitators and barriers to achieving universal health coverage in Uganda: a qualitative study of the free healthcare policy" offers...
Who pays to treat malaria and how much? Analysis of the cost of illness, equity and economic burden of malaria in Uganda
Case management of malaria in Africa has significantly progressed over the past two decades, necessitating updated cost estimates for effective malaria control policies. In Uganda, a costing exercise revealed that the mean societal economic cost for treating suspected...
Connecting the dots for leveraging quality data in health care in Africa and Asia
The report 'Connecting the Dots: Quality-of-Care Data for Purchasing Primary Health Care in Burkina Faso, Kenya, the Philippines, and Uganda', published by ThinkWell, explores the critical role of quality-of-care data in enhancing purchasing decisions for primary...
Out of pocket care costs among HIV and hypertension co-morbid patients in Uganda
This study investigates the financial burden of out-of-pocket costs for patients with both HIV and hypertension (HTN) in urban and peri-urban Uganda. Through a survey of 94 patients from 10 clinics in Wakiso and Kampala districts, researchers assessed the direct,...
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...
Health financing progress matrix assessment: Uganda 2023
This WHO report provides a concise summary of the Health Financing Progress Matrix assessment in Uganda, conducted as part of the mid-term review of the national health financing strategy. The report was conducted using a highly participatory process, with the...
Strategy for integrating Results-Based Financing into the Uganda intergovernmental fiscal transfers program
In Uganda, Results-Based Financing (RBF) is highlighted as a core intervention to transform health purchasing from a traditional input-based budgeting approach to one that actively encourages performance improvements. This strategy's goal is to institutionalize RBF as...
Overview of health financing flows in Uganda
Tracking health financing resources is critical for ensuring the efficient use of resources as well as equitable distribution. This report documents the nature and magnitude of financial flows to Uganda’s health sector and the purchase of primary health care (PHC)...
The economic burden incurred by families caring for children with developmental disability in Uganda
This study reveals that households caring for a child with a disability spent more than the national average household expenditure, and the annual cost of illness for all households was more than 100% of the national GDP per capita. In sub-Saharan Africa,...
A review of local government and health facility implementation experiences in Results-Based Financing for primary health care in Uganda
Starting in the financial year 2018/19, the Ministry of Health (MOH) began implementing Results-Based Financing (RBF) under the Uganda Reproductive, Maternal, and Child Health Improvement Project (URMCHIP). To operationalize RBF, the MOH introduced performance-linked...
Health coverage and financial protection in Uganda: A political economy perspective
It has been over 20 years since Uganda abolished user-fees to improve access to health services and reduce the financial burden of accessing care. However, household out-of-pocket expenditures are still persistently very high contributing 42% of total health...
Health financing reforms in Uganda: dispelling the fears and misconceptions related to introduction of a National Health Insurance Scheme; Comment on “Health coverage and financial protection in Uganda: a political economy perspective”
In this paper, the authors provide a contextual and political-economic analysis of health financing reforms in Uganda and in particular dispelling the fears and misconceptions related to introduction of a National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS). The path to health...
Strategic Purchasing Arrangements in Uganda and Their Implications for Universal Health Coverage
Uganda's mixed health financing system creates challenges for achieving universal health coverage but offers opportunities for improvement through better resource pooling and provider autonomy.A new research article published in the Health Systems and Reform Journal...
Transition to program budgeting in Uganda: status of the reform and preliminary lessons for health
To make sustainable progress towards universal health coverage (UHC), public health financing is very critical. Uganda has taken major budgetary reforms to optimize budget planning, transparency, and accountability since the early 2000s. The two major reforms over...