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Benefit package Archives - Page 14 of 102 - P4H Network
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Ministry of Health and public university start hospital costing process
Mozambique

MOH and UEM public university (the oldest and most important in Mozambique) are starting a process of costing of health services, focused on hospitals. The objective is to know the costs of service provision, as well as to train hospital managers in cost accounting....

Financing nursing care more than doubled in Estonia in 2021
Financing nursing care more than doubled in Estonia in 2021
Estonia

According to materials prepared by Triin Habicht, a renown health economist from Estonia (WHO consultant) and her colleague Kaija Kasekamp (University of Tartu), the Estonian Insurance Fund started financing nursing services in assisted living facilities since 2020...

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...