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.
Gratuité in Burkina Faso, English version report
In 2016 the Government of Burkina Faso introduced Gratuité, a user fee replacement policy, to increase access to and use of health care services for women and for children under 5 years of age. ThinkWell and its learning partner Recherche pour la Santé et le...
ThinkWell’s report on Burkina Faso’s gratuity policy
On March 2, 2016, Burkina Faso's Council of Ministers, enshrined the implementation of free healthcare measures for women and children under the age of five. ThinkWell and its research partner RESADE carried out a detailed analysis of the policy in collaboration with...
The Impact of Covid 19 on Subnational GovernmentFinancing and Household Financial Risk Protection in Indonesia- Health PolicyPlus
The U.S. Agency for International Development-funded Health Policy Plus (HP+) project conducted analyses to understand the impact of COVID-19 on subnational government budgets and households’ healthcare use and spending. This work was undertaken in support of the...
National Health Accounts Estimates for India 2015-16
This report provides healthcare expenditures in India based on National Health Accounts Guidelines for India, 2016 (with refinements where required) that adhere to System of Health Accounts 2011 (SHA 2011), a global standard framework for producing health accounts.
The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Social Health Insurance Claims for High-Burden Diseases in the Philippines
In this study, CGDev examines the magnitude of decline in insurance claims of twelve (12) high-burden diseases and five (5) common procedures from 1,286 public and private hospitals. From March to September 2020, seasonally adjusted insurance claims declined by almost...
Project to create Niger’s National Institute for Medical Assistance (INAM)
INAM's dual public mission: 1. Implementation of the reform of free health care with a view to its gradual integration into Niger's CMU (Couverture Médicale Universelle) system currently under construction. 2. Delegated management by the State, local authorities and...
Purchasing reforms and tracking health resources, Kenya (December 2019)
As low- and middle-income countries undertake health financing reforms to achieve universal health coverage, there is renewed interest in making allocation of pooled funds to health-care providers more strategic. To make purchasing more strategic, countries are...
Ensuring equitable population coverage in the Philippines: Immediate eligibility to Philhealth benefits (2021)
People should be at the center of UHC, so population coverage should be prioritized, especially for the most disadvantaged groups. The Philippines’ UHC law mandates that all Filipinos be given immediate access to the country’s national health insurance benefits...
Health financing in the Philippines (2020)
ThinkWell’s Philippine UHC Law Series presents an overview of the country’s health system and the ongoing implementation of the UHC Law. This third brief in the series focuses on health financing in the Philippines, summarizes the current situation, identifies...
Certification of the primary care provider in the Philippines (September 2020)
The Philippine UHC Law aims to prioritize primary care, mandating that each citizen must be empaneled to a primary care provider within a health care provider network (HCPN). To ensure the quality of health care services, health professional training curricula will be...
An introduction to the Philippine universal health care law (2020)
The SP4PHC project is launching a series of briefs to describe health system reforms taking place under the UHC Law, emphasizing the impact these reforms have on health financing and PHC. The series will also include narratives from our field experience in Antique and...
Leveraging private sector primary care providers to increase access to family planning in the Philippines (September 2019)
The use of modern contraception in the Philippines is increasing steadily but is still very low compared to regional peers. Increased modern contraceptive prevalence rate (mCPR) is a key target of the Philippine government. Private providers, especially private...
The transforming health systems for universal care project in Kenya: A review (December 2020)
With support from the World Bank, the Global Financing Facility, and the Government of Japan, Kenya is implementing the Transforming Health Systems for Universal Care Project (THS-UCP) to improve reproductive, maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health (RMNCAH)...
Kenya: A review of Afya Care – The universal health coverage pilot program – In Isiolo County (September 2020)
In late 2018, the Government of Kenya launched the Afya Care Universal Health Coverage (UHC) pilot program in four counties in Kenya. Under the initiative, county governments discontinued all user fees at secondary public hospitals and, in return, received commodities...
Kenya: A review of Eduafya (March 2020)
The SP4PHC project team in Kenya undertook a rapid review of EduAfya, a scheme launched by the Government of Kenya to provide health insurance coverage to public secondary school students. This brief assesses how the program is working, drawing on implementation...