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.
Budgeting for results in health: Key features, achievements and challenges in Peru (August 2020)
Implementing programme based budgeting in Ghana’s health sector – June 2021
Financing Health for All: Increase, transform and redirect – COUNCIL BRIEF NO. 2 (October 2021)
Kuwait during the pandemic of COVID 19
This article outlines the government of Kuwait’s response to the health crisis caused by the COVID 19 pandemic and the course of action that it has undertaken to protect the public health of its citizens and residents. The policy report includes an early cost/benefit...
Universal health insurance in Rwanda: major challenges and solutions for financial sustainability of the community-based health insurance (CBHI)
Rwanda introduced CBHI as a vehicle for universal health insurance and universal health coverage. First introduced in 1999/2000, CBHI has since faced chronic financial deficit. In this peer reviewed study, the authors assessed the challenges facing CBHI financial...
Rwanda: Health financing strategic plan (2018-2024)
This document complements the 2018-2024 Health sector strategic plan, focussing on health financing. Health financing is a core function of health systems that can enable progress towards universal health coverage (UHC) by improving effective service coverage by...
Rwanda fourth health sector strategic plan (2018-2024)
The Rwanda fourth health sector strategic plan (HSSP IV) is the guiding document outlining national strategic directions to improve health standards of Rwandans between 2018-2024. Its content reflects a comprehensive analysis of the Rwanda’s health sector progress and...
Nigeria health financing policy and strategy 2017
A stronger national health financing system provides a stronger foundation for the broader health system. Health financing thus serves as pivot upon which other health system building blocks revolve and rest. Achieving universal health coverage (UHC) and all the...
Country-based study on evidence on financial protection in Georgia, 2021
A new report titled “Can people afford to pay for health care?” was published by the WHO Barcelona Office for health financing and published in 2021. Authored by Ketevan Goginashvili, Mamuka Nadareishvili and Triin Habicht, this publication is part of a series of...
P4H Annual Review 2020-2021 – Annex
Health financial hardship among ethnic minority populations in Vietnam
Côte d’Ivoire: Report on the workshop to develop the framework for the national health financing coordination platform
Côte d’Ivoire: 2021-2023 framework for the national health financing coordination platform
Rethinking the private-public mix in healthcare: Analysis of health reforms in Israel during the last three decades
While most discussions surrounding the private-public partnerships in health care focuses on financing infrastructure, in Israel, the public-private mix has become a central way of financing and delivering services in wake of diminishing public funding. This paper...
Private expenditures on healthcare: determinants patterns and progressivity aspects
This journal paper discusses how private spending by Israelis on health care is related to the income of individuals and their place of residence, and the inequity in access to care that ensues. It also analyses the progressivity of public financing in Israel which is...