Author: Bart Jacobs , Ashish Bajracharya, Jyotirmoy Saha, Chhorvann Chhea, Ben Bellows, Steffen Flessa and Adelio Fernandes Antunes, Background Following the introduction of user fees in Cambodia, Health Equity Funds (HEF) were developed to enable poor people access...
Khmer Times, 29 June 2018: " [...] Speaking to workers in Kampong Chhnang province, Mr Hun Sen said that all benefits recently implemented by the government, including bonuses for pregnant women, free bus rides, a minimum wage hike and health insurance, will remain in...
The meeting took place at SDC Office and discussed the following agenda items: Local champions for NCDs Brainstorming on outcome of P4HC+ Consultative Workshop (Feb 6th) and ways forward Debriefing H-EQIP mission
Venue: SDC Office Tentative Agenda: “Expanding the benefit package to include management of chronic non-communicable diseases”. Presentation by Charlotte, Kouland and contribution by Somil Brainstorming on outcome of P4HC+ Consultative Workshop (Feb 6th) and ways...
The overall objective of this study was to assess the purchasing function of the healthcare system in Burkina Faso. Specifically, this involved : analyze current institutional arrangements and organizational practices related to the purchasing function in Burkina...
The Phnom Penh Post, 12 June 2018: "Officials from the Labour Ministry’s National Social Security Fund (NSSF) have denied allegations that its partner clinics offer poor medical treatment and discriminated against garment workers who checked in using the NSSF-issued...
Khmer Times, 12 June 2018: "The National Social Security Fund warned yesterday it would take legal action against anyone telling workers the NSSF healthcard would provide second-rate healthcare and the service would end after the election. " Read more
With support from the World Bank, the Ministry of Health has developed a strategic purchasing framework document. This was to be based on the national health financing strategy and on the development of proposals put forward by the DES at the time. The document was...
A very important document for understanding the challenges of public finance management in the Comoros. The first source on the subject as part of the development of the SNFS in 2018.
A comparative study of five African countries examining how social health insurance schemes have been able to cover the poor or not, as the case may be. Selected countries have either national or community-based insurance schemes with the intent of providing health...
This paper examines the process of developing social health insurance in Mongolia during 1994-2004, and its successes, challenges and lessons. The development of compulsory health insurance in Mongolia shows that a prepaid health insurance mechanism based on risk...
Health promotion is receiving more attention in Mongolia. A survey is undertaken to examine health promotion in terms of health-related information, education, counseling, screening, and preventive and medical checkups. There are several factors that limit the...
This paper is the second paper that reviews social health insurance development in Mongolia during 2005-2015. The first paper from 2005 reviewed mandatory health insurance development during 1994-2004. During these years, health insurance brought many new features for...
The aim of this study was to analyze the incidence of catastrophic health expenditures and to measure the rate of impoverishment from health care payments under the social health insurance scheme in Mongolia. Data from the 2012 Household Socio-Economic Survey was...
Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) pose a formidable health and development challenge for low and middle income countries (LMICs). However, translating this challenge into resource allocation is seriously constrained by a lack of country specific evidence on NCD...
