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.
How can Saudi Arabia reform its public hospital payment models? A narrative review
The cost of healthcare in Saudi Arabia continues to rise at an alarming rate, challenging the sustainability of the public healthcare system. This paper reviews various identified payment models that can be used to contain costs and improve the quality of the care...
National health insurance system for universal health coverage: prospects and challenges in Saudi Arabia
This study examines the feasibility of developing a national health insurance system as a way to achieve universal health coverage in Saudi Arabia. It also highlights the potential role of health insurance in improving health coverage, the quality of care, and...
Shifting the burden of healthcare from the state to the market in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
This article focuses on the factors that have promoted transferring the responsibility of providing healthcare from the government to market forces. This has allowed the private sector to grow in Saudi Arabia. It also discusses other factors that contributed to policy...
Healthcare Finance in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: A Qualitative Study of Householders’ Attitudes
This study examines how satisfied the Saudi people are with their public sector healthcare services and assesses their willingness to contribute to financing the system through a national health insurance scheme. The sustainability of the public sector healthcare...
Health Tranformation Strategy, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
This document gives an overview of the health care transformation envisioned in Saudi Arabia’s “Vision 2030”, spelling out the underlying national goals. Led by the Ministry of Health and developed in close collaboration with the National Transformation Program, it...
BURUNDI: Groupe des Partenaires Financiers en Santé (GPFFS) meeting September 2021
Minutes of the Groupe des Partenaires Financiers en Santé (GPFFS) meeting on September 15, 2021. Agenda: 1. Adoption of last meeting's minutes 2. Review of action points from last meeting 3. Epidemiological update (WHO) 4. Presentation of health programming in Burundi...
BURUNDI: Groupe des Partenaires Financiers en Santé (GPFFS) meeting October 2021
Minutes of the Health Funding Partners Group meeting on October 18, 2021. Agenda: 1. Adoption of last meeting's minutes 2. Review of action points from last meeting 3. Epidemiological update (WHO) 4. CPDS debriefing and actions for next CPSD meeting 5. Miscellaneous
BURUNDI: Groupe des Partenaires Financiers en Santé (GPFFS) meeting November 2021
Minutes of the Health Funding Partners Group meeting on November 17, 2021. Agenda: 1. Adoption of last meeting's minutes 2. Review of action points from last meeting 3. Epidemiological update (WHO) 4. Presentation of the conclusions of the workshop on the development...
Reforming the public service medical aid scheme (PSEMAS) in Namibia
The Government of Namibia provides a significant proportion of funding to subsidize the PSEMAS for public servants. As part of efforts to ensure value for money, the Government is pursuing reforms to the scheme. A technical committee was set up early in 2021 to...
Extending social health protection: Accelerating progress towards Universal Health Coverage in Asia and the Pacific
Check out the new ILO publication on Extending social health protection: accelerating progress towards Universal Health Coverage in Asia and the Pacific. It includes cases studies produced under P4H collaboration! This regional report documents and analyses country...
Pricing the national health insurance scheme in Qatar – opportunities and challenges
In 2013, the Kingdom of Qatar introduced a national health insurance scheme called ‘Seha’. It is regulated by the Supreme Council of Health (SCH) through the country’s National Health Insurance Company. This paper outlines the SHC’s health insurance pricing approach...
Demand for health services rises in Qatar
This article from the Health chapter of The Report: Qatar 2020, lays out the structure of the health system in Qatar and its focus on public investment that has improved access to and demand for health services. It provides an assessment of the Ministry of Public...
Health Vision 2050 Sultanate of Oman
The Health Vision 2050 document lays out the Omani vision for its health system to be in future. It consists of, among other things, a chapter on sustainable health system financing that focuses on improving equity and ensuring financial protection for all. The...
Ensuring universal access to primary health care in Oman
This case study focuses primarily on how Oman used various strategies for improving access to and quality of their primary health care system thus contributing to universal health care. The focus on primary health care as the fundamental tool to advance the health of...
Oman’s health care system increasingly ready to meet the population’s needs
This article provides an assessment of the cost of the public health care sector in Oman. Costs are increasing steadily as the country has a universal health care system continues to expand free primary health care to Omanis and subsidized care for the foreign...