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.
Public-Private Partnerships for Health in Vietnam : Issues and Options
“This book describes the nature of public-private partnerships (PPPs) in the health sector in Vietnam. It defines health-related PPPs, describes their key characteristics, and develops a taxonomy of the different types of PPPs that exist in practice, illustrated by...
Is UHC Affordable? Estimated Costs and Fiscal Space Analysis for the Ethiopian Essential Health Services Package
Estimating the required resources for implementing an essential health services package (EHSP) is vital to examine its feasibility and affordability. This study aimed to estimate the financial resources required to implement the Ethiopian EHSP from 2020 to 2030....
Revision of the Ethiopian Essential Health Service Package: An Explication of the Process and Methods Used
To make progress toward universal health coverage, countries should define the type and mix of health services that respond to their populations’ needs. Ethiopia revised its essential health services package (EHSP) in 2019. This paper describes the process,...
Towards Universal Health Coverage in Ethiopia’s ‘developmental state’? The political drivers of health insurance
This paper employs a process tracing methodology to examine the political drivers of the adoption and evolution of state health insurance based on 28 key informant interviews conducted between 2015 and 2018 with politicians, policymakers and donor officials. The...
UN Socio-economic Assessment of COVID-19 in Ethiopia
The COVID-19 pandemic poses clear threats to Ethiopia’s reforms and relatively strong economic growth, with “wide-ranging and serious” according to a UN report. The report assesses the devastating social and economic dimensions of the COVID-19 crisis and sets out the...
Cost of Implementing Minimum Service Standards for Health in Indonesia
Indonesia has increased health insurance coverage to 83 % of the total population. Due to the rise of noncommunicable disease (NCD) prevalence, public health spending may need to shift the focus to primary health care. Indonesia has released several iterations of its...
Essential Health Services Package of Ethiopia
The Essential Health Service Package, launched in November 2019, aims to provide access to quality health services without any financial challenges regardless of age, ability to pay and economic status, and geographic location for the population in Ethiopia.
Prioritizing Essential Packages of Health Services in six countries in SSA
This document presents case studies from six African countries (Eswatini, Ethiopia, Malawi, Nigeria, Rwanda, and South Africa) and: • reviews the process by which prioritized SRHR interventions were included in countries’ health benefits packages; • discusses...
Protocol for Prioritization of Health Interventions for Revision of the Essential Health service Package in Ethiopia
Priority setting is selecting interventions, among long-list of options, which can address the most important health needs of the population. However, selection of specific intervention to be included in the Essential Health Service Package or health insurance benefit...
COVID-19, poverty, and social safety net response in Zambia
What has the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic been on poverty in Zambia, and how can social protection programs mitigate these effects? This paper estimates the pre-pandemic poverty level in Zambia and then simulates the distributional impact of COVID-19 in the...
Review of health financing, expenditure and service delivery in Zambia
Ensuring adequate access to quality health services, whether preventative or curative, is critical for a country to ensure that its population attain better health outcomes. In this context, universal health coverage (UHC), embedded within sustainable development...
Towards universal health coverage (UHC) in Zambia: impediments and opportunities
The inclusion of UHC in the 2015 sustainable development goals (SDGs) targets (target 3.8) and the national commitments requires that all its member states work towards achieving this agenda. However, there are concerns over its feasibility in low and middle-income...
P4HC+Meeting Minutes 9 June 2021
The main objective of this meeting is to collect feedback from P4HC+ partners on the draft MoU on the coordination between the National Social Protection Council and Development partners, particularly on the Social Health Protection Pillar which will be led by P4HC+...
Hardship financing of out-of-pocket (OOP) payments in the context of free healthcare in Zambia
High levels of out-of-pocket spending have been shown to be one of the biggest health reasons people fall into poverty when accessing care, or choose to forgo care. Globally it is estimated that 100 million people are pushed into poverty every year due to exorbitant...
The second Health Sector Transformation Plan (HSTP-II)
This is the second Health Sector Transformation Plan (HSTP-II) covering the period between Ethiopian fiscal years 2013 and 2017 (July 2020–June 2025). HSTP-II was developed as the first part of a 10-year health sector plan. It was prepared based on an in-depth...