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...
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...
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...
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...
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
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...
Thailand announces new benefits package for VITT diagnosis and treatment under Universal Coverage Scheme
The National Health Security Board has approved laboratory testing and medication for treating vaccine-induced immune thrombotic thrombocytopenia (VITT) under the Universal Coverage Scheme (UCS)'s benefits package. The introduction of VITT laboratory testing and...
Chad: validation of the study report on the development of the CSU’s nomenclature of healthcare services
The Cellule Interministérielle de la CSU organized in Mara from March 11 to 13, 2021, the validation workshop of the study report on the development of the CSU nomenclature of care services. The meeting, held in Mara, was attended by ministerial...
The Philippines will release a New Benefit Package for Covid-19 Patients under Home Quarantine
The Department of Health and the Philippines Health Insurance Corporation (commonly known as PhilHealth) has formulated a new home care benefit package for Covid 19 patients that will include "cost mechanisms", among others. The "holistic" home care...
Australia’s Medicare Benefit Schedule changes form 1 July 2021
From July 1 this year, more than 900 Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS) items for rebates for private surgery are set to change as part of the MBS Review of all 5,700 Medicare rebates. The latest changes will affect rebates for orthopaedic surgery, general surgery...
Senegal: Data analysis workshop as part of the study on catastrophic healthcare expenditure 2014-2019
In Thiès, where the workshop was held, the aim was to analyze secondary data following the methodology adopted in the 2014-2019 Catastrophic Health Expenditure Study . More specifically, the work involved : share the methodological orientation report (ROM) for...