Nearly 3,000 companies have not affiliated their employees to Senegal's Institutions de Prévoyance Maladie (IPM), revealed Marie Rosalie Ngom Coly, Director of the Institution de Coordination de l'Assurance Maladie Obligatoire (ICAMO). "Generally speaking in Senegal,...
Report to the Congress of the Republic 2023-2024
The Ministry of Health and Social Protection presents the health sector report for the period from June 2023 to May 2024, highlighting the progress in objectives, plans and projects contained in the Sector and Institutional Strategic Plan, the main achievements and...
Summary of the Cades 2023 annual report on social issues
Against a backdrop of heightened financial market volatility and rising central bank interest rates, Caisse d'Amortissement de la Dette Sociale (Cades) has continued its program of social security issues. Its annual report details the initiatives taken to refinance...
DSS publishes key Social Security figures for 2023
In its annual edition of Key Social Security Figures, the Social Security Department (DSS) presents a panorama of indicators on the financing and performance of the social security system's public service for the year 2023.The report published in June 2024 indicates...
Health insurance publishes data on healthcare reimbursements over the last twelve months
On September 24, the French National Health Insurance (Assurance maladie) presented the trend in healthcare reimbursements by the general scheme over the last twelve months. The data published show that reimbursements rose by 4.4% over the period. Spending on...
The Ondam Alert Committee issues its second opinion
Following an initial opinion published in April, the Comité d'alerte has published a second opinion on compliance with the National Health Insurance Expenditure Target (Ondam) for 2024. The Ondam target for 2024 was set at €254.9 billion in the last Social Security...
Working Paper of the collaborative NATO‐Harvard project: The Libya Case Study
The paper addresses four key themes: the impact of the conflict; the security community's participation in health system recovery and reconstruction; the coordination mechanisms that facilitated or directed the security community's involvement; and the information...
Workshop on health system strengthening in Libya
The World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean, with the Libyan Ministry of Health, organized a workshop on health system strengthening in Libya. The workshop was held in Tunis, Tunisia from 22 to 24 June 2016, with the participation...
Libya Service Availability And Readiness Assessment-Full Report 2017
The Service Availability and Readiness Assessment (SARA) survey is a systematic survey which aims to provide reliable information on availability and readiness of health services delivery. This is the second SARA survey conducted in Libya, with the first one completed...
Health Accounts 2020-2021: Health Spending and Financing in Uruguay
Relevant results are presented for the years 2020 and 2021. Comparisons are made with the expenditure series available since 2005, in particular with the year 2019 as it is the year prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2021 the variation of total health expenditure in...
The transformation of the Mexican healthcare system
A discussion is presented on the balances and consequences of the decentralization of the health system initiated in the 1980s. Subsequently, it develops what the transformation process consisted of based on the centralization of health services in Mexico, the...
New mechanism for the purchase of medicines and medical supplies in Mexico
This new contracting model will improve efficiency, transparency and the supply of medicines and supplies needed in the health sector.The President of the Republic emphasized that the New Model of Consolidated Procurement of Medicines and Medical Supplies in Mexico...
National Health Accounts 2018-2021
In Guinea-Bissau, the first Health Account Report exercise was carried out in 2015 and covered the year 2011. The second was carried out in 2022, covering the period 2015 to 2017, and the third in 2023, covering the period from 2018 to 2021.
Bandim Health Project report
Technical appendix to the policy brief ‘Mortality of women and children, coverage of essential maternal and child health services and out-of-pocket payments in rural Guinea-Bissau during PIMI III’: Report delivered to the Delegation of the European Union...
Health Accounts Report 2016 and 2017
This report is divided into four chapters: Chapter 1 presents the general context of the country; Chapter 2, the concept and process of developing health accounts; Chapter 3, the financing of the national health system; and Chapter 4, health expenditure.