The number of documents available on the P4H Network’s digital platform reflects 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).
Assessment of Social Health Insurance Scheme in Selected Districts of Nepal
Nepal has implemented the Social Health Insurance (SHI) scheme in February 2015, aiming to enhance financial protection through the pre-payment approach as well as risk pooling in the health sector This study assessed the performance of the SHI scheme in terms of...
Kenya’s COVID-19 budget: Funding for health and welfare
As the impact of Covid-19 continues to escalate, accountable public budgets that are aligned to the needs of people living in poverty and vulnerable populations are more crucial than ever. In the 2020/21 fiscal year, Kenya will not only be dealing with the social,...
Enhancing the competitiveness of the health sector in Jordan
The paper aims to identify and elaborate on the main challenges facing the private sector’s participation in the Health Sector in Jordan, in wake of the COVID 19 pandemic. It entails an exploration of the structure, governance and finance of the Kingdom’s Healthcare...
Actuarial Cost and fiscal impact of expanding the Jordan Civil Insurance Programme for health coverage to vulnerable citizens
This study analyses the cost of increasing health insurance coverage to vulnerable Jordanians (for Jordan’s public health exchequer). It estimates the percentage of Jordan’s population that is not insured and thus does not access as many services as those insured by...
Determinants of health insurance coverage and out of pocket payments for health care in Jordan
The Government of Jordan’s 2016-2020 National Strategy for Health Sector set out a vision of high-quality lifelong health care for the whole population, with a focus on financial protection. This report presents findings on health insurance coverage and out-of-pocket...
Determinants of health insurance ownership in Jordan
The peer-reviewed article assesses the proportion of the population covered by any health insurance and their social determinants drawing from the Jordan population and family health survey. The study found that more than one-quarter of the population in Jordan were...
Will Jordan be closer to UHC after the COVID 19 Pandemic?
This Journal of Global Health publication aims to describe the opportunities within Jordanian health care system's response to the COVID-19 pandemic during March-May, 2020. The authors look at five core dimensions of health care system performance: Equity, Quality,...
Health Financing Policies in Jordan: The Allocation of Public Expenditures in Global Context | Rawabdeh | Makara Journal of Health Research
This research article provides a comprehensive analysis of nearly eight years of data on public health expenditure, the national health strategy and other health policies which influence the provision of equitable healthcare in Jordan. It looks at providing access to...
Law No. 1/12 OF MAY 12, 2020 ESTABLISHING THE CODE OF SOCIAL PROTECTION IN BURUNDI
Nigeria’s financing of health care during the COVID-19 pandemic: challenges and recommendations
In this study, the authors analyse the financing of Nigeria’s healthcare system in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. They use the three health care financing functions: revenue collection, pooling, and purchasing. The findings show that Nigeria projected that it...
COVID-19 and progress towards achieving universal health coverage (UHC) in Nigeria
Nigeria like other low and middle-income countries made a commitment towards attaining UHC by 2030. The arrival of COVID‐19 poses additional pressure on the already weak health system, which in turn affects the provision of other equally important essential health...
Assessment of the national health insurance scheme (NHIS) in Nigeria
Nigeria launched its NHIS in 2005, however, only 5% of Nigerians have health insurance and 70% still finance their healthcare through out-of-pocket (OOP) expenditure. Understanding the contextualized perspectives of stakeholders involved in NHIS is critical to...
Nigeria: national health accounts (NHA) 2017
The NHA documents and characterizes the flow of resources in a country’s health sector. Policy makers and administrators use the NHA to learn from past expenditure and improve planning and allocation of resources throughout the system, thereby increasing efficiency...
Out-of-pocket (OOP) payments, catastrophic health expenditure and poverty among households in Nigeria
Despite the operationalisation of the national health insurance scheme in 2005, high reliance on OOP health payments as a means of financing health system in Nigeria persists. OOP health payments can generate catastrophic expenditures leading to household...
Nigeria’s national health insurance scheme (NHIS) strategic plan: 2020-2030
Considerable efforts aimed at strengthening the health system to ensure delivery of effective, affordable and efficient services at all levels without financial hardship and achieve better health outcomes have been implemented over the years. To advance this goal, the...