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.
Zambia health sector public expenditure review: 2006-2016
The report highlights the findings of a health sector Public Expenditure Review (PER) covering the period from 2006 to 2016. The findings reveal that health spending in Zambia is low compared to regional and global averages, with a significant reliance on donor...
Constitution of the Republic
Article 72 establishes that"public health is a right of all persons and it is the responsibility of the State to guarantee access, free and quality care, protection and recovery services". To make this right effective, "the State institutes a health system at all...
Constitution of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana
Article 24 of the constitution states that “Every citizen has the right to free medical attention and also to social care in case of old age and disability”.
Evolution of Public Health Expenditure Financed by the Romanian Social Health Insurance Scheme From 1999 to 2019
This study analyzed 20 years (1999–2019) of Social Health Insurance budget trends. No major structural shifts were found in financing shares for hospitals, drugs, or primary care. However, emerging trends from reforms were observed in lower expenditure categories,...
Long-term care financing: lessons for low- and middle-income settings: brief 10
The World Health Organization Centre for Health Development's tenth brief on long-term care financing explores a crucial aspect of caregiving in low- and middle-income settings: the role of informal caregivers. As the backbone of long-term care (LTC) systems, informal...
World Bank investment framework for Nutrition 2024
The World Bank's Investment Framework for Nutrition 2024 outlines a strategic plan to address global malnutrition and rising obesity rates. Despite improvements, malnutrition remains widespread, with 148 million children still affected by stunting and obesity,...
Scaling up departmental health insurance units in Senegal: A mixed-method study
The article titled "Scaling Up Departmental Health Insurance Units in Senegal: A Mixed-Method Study," authored by Valéry Ridde, Mouhamadou Faly Ba, Babacar Kane, Anouk Chouaïd, and Adama Faye, and published in the Journal of Health Systems and Reform, examines the...
Costs of healthcare for scabies and related skin infections in Fiji, 2018–2019
A recent study published in PLOS Global Public Health examines the economic burden of scabies and related skin infections in Fiji. The article, titled "Costs of primary healthcare presentations and hospital admissions for scabies and related skin infections in Fiji,...
Predictors of unmet healthcare needs among people with type 2 diabetes in Sri Lanka
The study 'Predictors of unmet needs among people with diabetes mellitus type 2 in Gampaha district of Sri Lanka' published in PLOS Global Public Health investigates the predictors of unmet healthcare needs among individuals with type 2 diabetes mellitus in the...
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...
Social Protection Policy 2025-2029 of Guinea-Bissau
Social Protection Policy (PNPS) of Guinea-Bissau, concretizes the government's commitment to strengthening the mechanisms for protecting Guineans against the risks that threaten their right to a dignified life, free from the fear of hunger and the access to essential...
Bandim Health Project report
Technical appendix to the policy brief ‘Mortality of women and children, coverage of essential maternal and child health services and out-of-pocket payments in rural Guinea-Bissau during PIMI III’: Report delivered to the Delegation of the European Union...
Estonian Health Insurance Fund published its 2023 annual report
The Health Insurance Fund of Estonia, folloing best practices in management, has published its annual reports since 2002 to in its webpage here. The latest annual report for year 2023 is available in English language. Foreword by the Executive board of the Health...
Policy paper on a landscape analysis of conditioned domestic ‘co-financing’
The Center for Global Development's policy paper, "Conditioned Domestic 'Co-financing' Policies in Global Health: A Landscape Analysis," provides an in-depth examination of co-financing policies in global health. These policies, which refer to the domestic financing...
Ordinance instituting a Compulsory Health Insurance and Social Guarantee Scheme
ORDINANCE N°0022 /PR/2007 instituant un Régime Obligatoire d'Assurance Maladie et de Garantie Sociale en République Gabonaise.