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.
Exploring health insurance services in Sudan from the perspectives of insurers
A range of health insurance options including Social Health Insurance exist in Sudan. Social Health Insurance is compulsory for the formal sector, although voluntary for the informal sector and small companies (≤10 employees). Private health insurance companies...
Sudan: Moving towards universal health coverage (UHC)
This brief discusses Sudan’s existing national plans and policies to achieve UHC. Among the national plans include the health financing reforms which led to the expansion of the Sudanese National Health Insurance (NHI) from civil servants and formal sector employees...
Achieving sustainable health financing in Zambia: prospects and advocacy opportunities for domestic resource mobilization
Zambia has demonstrated significant commitment to increasing domestic expenditure on health to ensure sustainable health sector financing. From 2003 to 2014, government health expenditure increased from US$67 million to US$514 million. However, beginning in 2013, the...
Supporting the development of a health benefits package in Malawi
Just like most low-income and middle-income countries, Malawi has used health benefits packages (HBPs) to allocate scarce resources to key healthcare interventions with the goal of achieving universal health coverage. However, with no widely accepted method for their...
Malawi Budget Brief 2020/2021: Living the promise to leave no one behind
This budget brief reviews the Malawi national budget 2020/21 and its relation to health. Specifically, the brief analyzes the size and composition of the National Budget, with a special focus on allocations to key social sectors that benefit children. The brief also...
Malawi budget brief 2019/2020: Towards full implementation of the essential health package
This budget brief explores the extent to which the FY2019/20 National Budget addresses health financing needs of citizens in Malawi, especially children. Specifically, it analyzes the size, composition and equity of allocations to the health sector in FY2019/20. The...
The Sierra Leone free health care initiative: process and effectiveness review
The introduction of the free health care initiative in 2010, which removed user fees for pregnant women, lactating mothers and children under five was supported by earlier evidence that showed health-related financial costs were a major barrier to mothers and children...
Ethiopia Public Expenditure Review
Ethiopia’s remarkable socio-economic transformation over the last decade has been marked by: a reorientation of expenditure from recurrent to capital; a significant devolution of resources from Federal Government to Regions; and a clear prioritization of...
Terms of Reference – Support for the mapping of PNDS and DI resources, Côte d’Ivoire National Consultant
In support of the Ministry of Health, the World Bank and the GFF plan to recruit an international firm, in collaboration with a national consultant, to provide direct support to the government and the unit dedicated to budget analysis. The Ministry of Health will...
Fiscal space for health in Malawi and revenue potential of innovative financing
Malawi has considered significant health financing and organizational reforms since 2013 to increase access to quality health services through increased domestic financing to the health sector. The health reform process consists of four areas, namely: (1) Establishing...
What is a Mutuelle de santé?
Given Madagascar's socio-economic situation, studies by national and international experts show that only 8% of the population would be able to contribute to a "mutual health insurance scheme", in the highest hypothesis. If the Malagasy government were to choose to...
Madagascar : Contents of the bill on financial protection in healthcare for all users
Basically, the bill aims to protect the 90% of the Malagasy population (24 million people) not yet covered by health insurance. That's why it mainly institutes a non-contributory system of state assistance/affiliation (which may be supplemented by certain...
Why is it so urgent to reform FANOME, abolish the equity fund, and support SALAMA’s strategic plan?
The main aim of the Malagasy national pharmaceutical policy is to "ensure the long-term availability and physical and financial accessibility of quality essential medicines and medical consumables in the Malagasy health system". However, a number of malfunctions have...
Why shouldn’t the response to the COVID-19 pandemic be pitted against the CSU?
The response to the COVID-19 pandemic must be coherent and long-term. The risk is of taking a truncated approach, focusing only on short-term needs and interests, and pitting health safety and CSU against each other. Responding adequately to pandemics is a key...