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Benefit package Archives - Page 14 of 102 - P4H Network
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Kazakhstan assessed the status of Mandatory Social Health Insurance reform
Kazakhstan assessed the status of Mandatory Social Health Insurance reform
Kazakhstan

On September 7, 2021, a regular meeting of the Board of the Ministry of Healthcare was held in Kazakhstan. The meeting was attended by the Minister of Healthcare Alexey Tsoy (on the photo), his First Vice-minister Marat Shoranov, Vice-Minister Azhar Giniyat, as well...

Philippines provides cash aid to COVID-infected employees
Philippines provides cash aid to COVID-infected employees
Philippines

In the Philippines, workers who had been infected with COVID-19 can now apply for financial support to the Employees’ Compensation Commission (ECC) through a courier service. This benefit covers both sickness and death due to COVID-19. The COVID-19 has been added into...

Senegal: a resilient health insurance model in times of Covid-19
Senegal: a resilient health insurance model in times of Covid-19
Senegal

In recent years, Senegal has embarked on several strategies to finance healthcare, with the risk of a certain fragmentation. Visit strategic plan for the development of universal health coverage 2013-2017 aims to cover at least 75% ...

Senegal: CMU and reduced expenses for HIV patients
Senegal: CMU and reduced expenses for HIV patients
Senegal

In the current context of declining international funding for HIV, the development of UHCs is seen by UNAIDS as a way of improving the quality of life of people living with HIV. opportunity to finance access to HIV care. As no strategy has been defined at...

Timor-Leste to compensate Covid vaccine-hit patients
Timor-Leste to compensate Covid vaccine-hit patients
Timor-Leste

Timor-Leste plans to provide compensation to people who receive adverse reactions or fatalities from Covid-19 vaccine, aiming to encourage the population to get the vaccination due to a rise of new cases and deaths. A patient who experiences a rare case of disability...

Policy versus the ground reality of Kenya’s free maternity program
Policy versus the ground reality of Kenya’s free maternity program
Kenya

Nirmala Ravishankar (ThinkWell), Boniface Mbuthia (ThinkWell Kenya), Stacey Orangi (KEMRI Wellcome Trust), and Edwine Barasa (KEMRI Wellcome Trust) Covid-19 threatens to reverse the progress countries have achieved in improving maternal and child survival, even as it...

Four orphan drugs added to the national drug list in Thailand
Four orphan drugs added to the national drug list in Thailand
Thailand

Financial protection is one of the UHC goals. Health financing reforms aim to protect people from financial hardships associated with the use of health services and products. In many countries, medicine largely contributes to out-of-pocket payments that cause...

Swaziland essential health care package: A case study

An essential health benefit (EHB) is a policy intervention designed to direct resources to priority areas of health service delivery to reduce disease burdens and ensure equity in health. Many low income countries introduced or updated EHBs in the 2000s. In Swaziland...

Philippines expands benefits coverage
Philippines expands benefits coverage
Philippines

The Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) has covered admissions in emergency rooms and tents in the hospitals to respond unavailability of hospital rooms. Beneficiaries who stay in the hospital for at least 24 hours are eligible to be...

Uganda national minimum healthcare package- a case study
Uganda

The basic essential healthcare benefit package (EHB) policy interventions aim to optimize efficiency while extending coverage by increasing equity of access to the defined benefits. Many low and middle-income countries introduced or updated EHBs in the 2000s. Uganda’s...