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.
P4H Annual Review 2022-2023
As in previous years, in 2022-2023 P4H Network members undertook numerous activities advancing SHP at both global and country levels. SHP promotes a rights-based approach to universal social protection and UHC. At the global level, the September 2022 P4H-TEG meeting...
P4H Annual Review 2022-2023 – Annex
White paper on Indonesia’s health financing system (2023-2034)
The Centre for Indonesia's Strategic Development and Initiatives recently published and launched a White Paper on Indonesia's Health Sector Development (2024-2023). The Paper includes 14 Chapters. This Chapter titled Invest Wisely, Execute Strategically, Achieve More-...
Universal health coverage in China part 2: addressing challenges and recommendations
This article is the second part of the series and provides recommendations for health financing and social health protection in China.The artilce uses a health system conceptual framework and proposes a set of feasible policy recommendations that draw from...
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...
Health financing progress matrix assessment: Georgia 2023
This report from the World Health Organization provides a concise summary of the Health Financing Progress Matrix assessment in Georgia, where WHO has a long engagement on health financing issues. Overview The report was conducted using a highly participatory process,...
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...
The application of artificial intelligence in health financing: a scoping review
Scoping review explores AI applications in health financing and future potentials. AI enhances performance in governance, revenue raising, pooling, and strategic purchasing, guiding future policy and capacity development.Artificial Intelligence (AI) represents a...
Understanding international measures of health spending
Age-adjusting expenditure on health A part of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Health Working Papers series, this paper assesses health system performance over time or across countries often means comparing populations with age...
Efficiency of Health Systems in Middle-Income Countries and Determinants of Efficiency in Latin American and the Caribbean
Inter-American Development Bank publication estimates the efficiency of health spending in 145 middle and high- income and the potential gains from improving efficiency for a range of health system outputs using Data Envelopment Analysis for 2010- 2014 and 2015- 2019...
What drives health care spending in Switzerland?
Findings from a decomposition by disease, health service, sex, and age BMC Health Services Research study decomposes healthcare spending by diseases and other perspectives and estimates the contribution of single cost drivers to overall healthcare spending growth in...
WHO Report: Purchasing for quality chronic care
Summary Report by the WHO Research Project titled 'Purchasing arrangements to strengthen quality health services for chronic diseases' implemented by WHO Kobe Centre (Japan) in collaboration with the WHO Department of Health System Governance and Financing...
Costs incurred by people receiving tuberculosis treatment in low-income and middle-income countries: a meta-regression analysis
A research paper issued in the October 2023 Edition of Lancet Global Health analyses the cost of tuberculosis diagnosis and treatment households in low income countries, providing evidence for the need to reduce economic barriers to treatment. Summary Background...
Catastrophic health expenditure during the COVID-19 pandemic in five countries: a time-series analysis
The October Edition of Lancet Global Health has published a research article on catastrophic health expenditure during the COVID 19 Pandemic in 2020 in five countries with available household expenditure data: Belarus, Mexico, Peru, Russia, and Viet Nam.The COVID-19...
Universal Health Coverage Global Monitoring Report 2023
The Universal Health Coverage Global Monitoring Report 2023 released by the WHO Division of Data, Analytics and Delivery for Impact, WHO Division of Universal Health Coverage/Life Course and the World Bank’s Health, Nutrition and Population Global Practice.The 2023...