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.
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...
Healthcare protection policies during the COVID-19 pandemic: Lessons towards the implementation of the new Egyptian universal health insurance law
This paper investigates the effects of Egypt’s health system’s response to the COVID 19 pandemic on the recently ratified social health insurance law (2018). It also provides lessons from the management of the first phase of the pandemic, lessons that could be...
COVID-19 response in Lebanon: current experience and challenges in a low-resource setting
This journal article gives insight into Lebanon’s healthcare response to the COVID 19 pandemic with limited financial resources and an increasingly private and urban health sector. It suggests that 80% of the health care budget in Lebanon is spent on acute care in...
Purchasing health services under Egypt’s new universal health insurance law: What are the implications for universal health coverage?
This paper provides an assessment of the purchasing arrangements in Egypt as stipulated by the universal health insurance law and bylaw, their implications and contribution to progress towards universal health coverage (UHC). There needs to be more legal clarity in...
Equity of healthcare financing: a progressivity analysis for Egypt
This paper aims to evaluate the progressivity of healthcare financing in Egypt by assessing five financing sources, out-of-pocket payments, an earmarked cigarette tax, direct taxes, indirect taxes, social health insurance and private health insurance. It provides a...
Implementing the universal health insurance law of Egypt: what are the key issues on strategic purchasing and its governance arrangements?
This document aims to inform the universal health insurance law implementation process in Egypt by anticipating the strengths and possible challenges as well as developing options to support a shift towards more strategic purchasing. It suggests that it would be...