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.
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...
Adapting the Israeli national health insurance law to the 21st Century- a report from the 19th Dead Sea conference
This report charts the history of the National Health Insurance Law (NHIL) passed in 1995 that enabled sustainable, high-quality medical care to all eligible Israeli residents. It is based on key takeaways from the 19th annual Dead Sea conference (held by the Israel...
Changes in the activity levels and financing sources of Israel’s private for-profit hospitals in the wake of reforms to the public-private divide
The study aims to identify, describe and analyse changes in private hospitals in the volume of publicly and privately funded elective procedures, and private health expenditure for surgical procedures. Since 2015, several reforms and programmes have been initiated in...
Study of health financing mechanisms in Burundi
Final report on innovative financing mechanisms for the Social Protection Support Fund in Burundi
Does health insurance contribute to improved utilization of health care services for the elderly in rural Tanzania? A cross-sectional study
Health care systems in developing countries such as Tanzania depend heavily on out-of-pocket payments. This mechanism contributes to inefficiency, inequity and cost, and is a barrier to patients seeking care especially the vulnerable aging population, hence impede...
Progressive pathway to universal health coverage (UHC) in Tanzania: A call for preferential resource allocation targeting the poor
Many countries, Tanzania included, committed to the goal of achieving UHC. A key lesson from research evidence and country experience in implementation of pro-poor UHC is that public budget plays a crucial role in financing health care access for the poor. This paper...
Prospects for sustainable health financing in Tanzania: Baseline report
A high proportion of Tanzania’s total health spending comes from foreign donors and households’ out-of- pocket (OOP) spending, rather than from sustainable sources such as government tax-based revenue or health insurance. Over reliance on OOP can expose households to...
Universal health coverage (UHC) in Tanzania: Evaluating the potential of a public private partnership (PPP) in health financing system
In this paper, the author analyses how UHC is being implemented in the health financing system of Tanzania and also how PPPs are contributing towards the attainment of UHC. A cross sectional survey was conducted in the Kilimanjaro region in Tanzania to evaluate the...