In the last 10 years, Africa has witnessed a renewed interest in Community-based Health Insurance (CBHI) schemes as countries leverage communities to expand risk-pooling coverage to informal sectors and the rural population. Among African countries, Ethiopia’s...
The Effect of Ethiopia’s Community-Based Health Insurance Scheme on Revenues and Quality of Care
This paper relies on a difference-in-differences approach applied to both panel and cross-section data. We find that CBHI-affiliated facilities experience a 111% increase in annual outpatient visits and annual revenues increase by 47%. Increased revenues are used to...
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Can Armenia Better Leverage its Basic Benefit Package for Universal Health Coverage?
Nicole Fraser, Adanna Chukwuma, Marianna Koshkakaryan, Lusine Yengibaryan, Xiaohui Hou, Tommy Wilkinson, Christina Meyer When Armenia introduced its first Basic Benefits Package (BBP) in 1997, the average life expectancy at birth was 70 years and the under-five...
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Thailand plans to use public funds to cover cost of home care for COVID patients
National Health Security Office, Thailand will cover costs of home care for asymptomatic or mild-symptom COVID-19 patients, aiming to reduce crowd in the hospitals, especially in Bangkok and metropolitan area. Home care includes online consulting with physicians,...
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...
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Social assistance in Ethiopia during COVID-19
World Bank’s High-Frequency Phone Surveys on COVID-19, 2020 (HFPS) and the Ethiopia Socioeconomic Survey, 2018-19 (ESS) are used to assess whether families got help during the pandemic, how quickly they got it, and whether government assistance benefited the...
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Development research project for health policies in Burkina Faso
The overall development objective of this PRD is to help improve public health policies in Burkina Faso. Its specific aim is to strengthen the institutionalization of quality evaluation practice in the healthcare sector. To this end, the project's main research...
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Leading the Charge: Insight into Zambia’s Sexual and Reproductive Health Advocacy in Universal Health Coverage Financing Reforms
Access to affordable family planning is an essential component of universal health coverage (UHC) as it is one of the most effective interventions that have shown to reduce maternal and under- mortality rates. For Zambia, to include Family Planning (FP) in the...
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WHO Barcelona Office warns Ukraine about the potential consequences of introducing co-payments
Part of the WHO Regional Office for Europe, Barcelona Office for Health Systems Financing has published a policy brief titled “Co-payment policy: considerations for Ukraine”, which contains policy recommendations regarding co-payments [1]. In its...
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Ethiopia Essential Health Services Package – informed by evidence on cost and cost-effectiveness
To make progress towards UHC, countries should prioritize and clearly define the type and mix of health services that should be provided in response to population needs. To ensure that the package can be funded and provided as planned, the resources needed to...
Niger: Report on the cost of upgrading the CSU healthcare offer
Niger: Actuarial study of the AMU care basket
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Niger: First framing of the INAM care basket – February 2021
Initial scoping of the basket of care guaranteed by the future national structure for managing free healthcare (INAM), February 2021. This report proposes an initial framework for the guaranteed basket of care provided by the Institut National de l'Assistance Médicale...