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.
Question and answer booklet on the planned national health insurance scheme in Uganda
Health Insurance is a way of financing health care where individuals or households’ contributions are pooled together, so when members fall sick they access a defined package of health services without having to pay out of pocket. This has the potential to protect...
Uganda’s national health accounts (NHA) for 2014/15 and 2015/16
Health Financing is critical to achieving health systems agenda. The overall purpose of the NHA study is to provide data for countries to monitor health spending across multiple streams, regardless of the entity or institution that financed and managed that spending...
Uganda national minimum healthcare package- a case study
The basic essential healthcare benefit package (EHB) policy interventions aim to optimize efficiency while extending coverage by increasing equity of access to the defined benefits. Many low and middle-income countries introduced or updated EHBs in the 2000s. Uganda’s...
Analytical review of health care reforms in Uganda and its implication on health equity
Uganda Government has continued to strengthen the country’s health system by initiating policy reforms aimed at enhancing equity in health care with the goal of attaining universal health coverage. These reforms include the abolition of user fees and the introduction...
Feasibility and desirability of scaling up community–based health insurance (CBHI) in rural communities in Uganda: lessons from Kisiizi Hospital CBHI scheme
CBHI schemes have been implemented world over to contribute to initial steps for national health insurance schemes, and universal health coverage. CBHI schemes aim to reduce out-of-pocket payments, and improve access to healthcare services in addition to raising...
Getting it right: Uganda’s proposed national health insurance scheme (NHIS)
Uganda is a signatory to the sustainable development goals (SDGs) and therefore is committed to attaining universal health coverage (UHC) for all. According to WHO, the goal of UHC is to ensure that all people obtain the health services they need without suffering...
Uganda health financing strategy 2015/16 – 2024/25
This second Health Financing Strategy (HFS) for Uganda came at a time of global commitment towards Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and Universal Health Coverage (UHC). This strategy served as a critical element in Uganda’s pathway to achieving the health-related...
A policy brief published on health financing in response to COVID-19 in Kyrgyzstan
WHO Regional Office for Europe in collaboration with WHO Country Office in Kyrgyzstan and WHO Barcelona Office for Health Systems Financing published a report titled “Health financing in Kyrgyzstan: obstacles and opportunities in the response to COVID-19” (2021)....
Unleashing the Potential of Strategic Purchasing
Strategic purchasing of health services and infrastructure can prove to be very valuable in achieving UHC in Low and Middle Income countries (LMICs) that have to optimize limited resources to provide adequate healthcare to its citizens. The brief explains this by...
Fiscal Space and Financing for National Health Insurance in Botswana
A challenge to National Health Insurance in middle income countries like Botswana is financing the benefit package without increasing the formal sector’s taxation burden. This technical brief aims to add to policy dialogue discussing National Health Insurance...
Determinants of health care utilisation: the case of Timor-Leste
Timor-Leste is a country in Southeast Asia, which adopts a tax-based health system with free health care at the point of service. However, Timor-Leste has not yet achieved elimination of inequalities in the utilisation of health services. This study aims to assess the...
Reforming premium amount in the Indonesian National Health Insurance System program using system dynamics
Indonesia has developed the National Health Insurance System (NHIS), aiming to achieve the Universal Health Coverage. However, there was deficit problem during 2014 to 2019. The trend is likely to increase. This study aims to evaluate and plan further policies with...
Bhutan’s experience with COVID-19 vaccination in 2021
Bhutan is country which has a good control of COVID pandemic with reported 957 cases of COVID-19 and one death, while 94 percent of adults population has been vaccinated in April 2021. This article aims to describes the challenges and enabling factors leading...
Developing and Implementing Health Financing Strategies
Low- and middle-income countries are developing health financing strategies to map out how they will pay for universal health coverage. This brief discusses three activities that are valuable for producing sound strategies: convening multi-sectoral committees to...
Communication and Advocacy in Action: Building Momentum for Universal Health Coverage
Despite strong global commitment to achieve universal health coverage (UHC), inconsistent understanding and communication about UHC hinders progress. Experience suggests that advocating for and communicating about UHC requires deliberate, tailored, context-specific...