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...
2005-11-04 Development of social health insurance in Mongolia: Successes, challenges and lessons
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...
2009-08-11 Health promotion financing with Mongolia’s social health insurance
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...
2016-02-16 Social health insurance development in Mongolia: Opportunities and challenges in moving towards Universal Health Coverage
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...
2016-11-07 Catastrophic health expenditure and impoverishment in Mongolia
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...

Who bears the financial burden of NCDs in Mongolia?
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...
2018-03-27 Who bears the financial burden of NCDs in Mongolia?
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...

Research report on the transition from FBR to strategic purchasing in Benin
http://www.equitesante.org/chaire-realisme/cahiers/cahiers-realisme-num-15-mars-2018/ Benin has experimented with two approaches to implementing results-based financing (RBF) in the health sector. Following the failure of attempts to harmonize and rationalize...
Orientation brief for strategic purchasing in Burkina by ST CSU 15_03_2017
This is a memo of only 5 pages on the priority mechanisms of strategic purchasing of care that can be built through the operationalization of the SNFS for the CSU. It is the result of an empirical synthesis of current thinking on the concept of "strategic purchasing";...
2018_01_25_Présentation de la démarche d’élaboration d’un document sur l’achat stratégique_consultant-_Burkina
A consultant has been appointed by the DGESS to support a working group in drawing up a national document on strategic purchasing. He presents the approach.

Proposed multi-sector strategic plan to combat malnutrition and its cost
A consultant has been appointed by the authorities and has submitted his report. With 16 project sheets and a costing per project, the fight against malnutrition has a very clear basic proposal for the organization of the round table to finance its multi-sector...
2018_02_TdR_rapid_assessment_strategic_purchasing_Burkina_Faso
The purpose of this Guide is to provide a framework for examining the purchasing landscape in country and make a determination about how strategic the purchasing system is as a whole.
2018_02_TdR_evaluation_purchasing_function_Burkina_Faso
The aim of this study is to assess the strategic purchasing function of the healthcare system in Burkina Faso by describing the current situation, identifying its strengths and weaknesses, and exploring the various options for accelerating the transition to strategic...
Meeting MS_PTF__Drug availability 01/25/2018

Universal health insurance in Burkina Faso: Good news!
The timetable for the operationalization of the Universal Health Insurance Scheme (RAMU) was adopted by the Council of Ministers this Wednesday, January 24, 2018.