At its traditional cabinet meeting, the Burkinabe government approved a significant reduction in the fees for CT scans, MRIs and haemodialysis. These cost reductions range from 50 to 60% and are scheduled to take effect from the end of April 2024."The Council (of...
The Health Insurance General Office (HIGO) of Mongolia is working on updating and implementing national policies. In this regard, joint trainings were organized with the World Bank consultants. Training held on March 22 was titled "Improving the package of health...
Mongolia's Health insurance agency monitors whether healthcare organizations are transparently posting information on access to care for the public. Since December of last year, the Health Insurance Agency has been working with providers to ensure the law on...
This article is the first part of the series. This research article comprehensively evaluated China's progress towards universal health coverage over the past two decades by identifying the achievements and gaps in service coverage and financial risk protection that...
The Nation reported that Thailand has introduced a health insurance coverage scheme for tourists in case of accidents subsidized by the government, starting from January 2024. Furthermore, the article adds, Tourism and Sports Minister Sudawan Wangsuphakijkosol said at...
This study assessed the distribution of health financing benefits and burdens across income groups in Indonesia, post-financing reforms. Utilizing cross-sectional nationally representative data, benefit incidence analyses (BIA) and financing incidence analyses (FIA)...
This decree is issued in application of the provisions of article 12 of law n°060-2015/CNT of September 5, 2015 on the universal health insurance scheme in Burkina Faso, defines the basket of care of the universal health insurance scheme.
As reported by WHO-Europe, Latvia has issued a roadmap to guide the implementation of new laws that will improve people's access to medicines. Proposed changes will be implemented this year and will aim for a 15–20% reduction in people’s out-of-pocket expenses for...
The study analyzes several aspects of inequality in the healthcare system: health outcomes, healthcare service utilization, financial protection (FP) and benefit incidence analysis (BIA). It uses the EDS/ENAFEME surveys for health (2006, 2012, 2021), and ECVMA/EHCVM...
This Supreme Decree 25265 established that children under 5 years of age, pregnant women in Bolivia had the right to access a basic package of preventive and curative health services, and the general population to the diagnosis and treatment of some communicable...
A new study suggests promoting equity and efficiency in health financing across 26 regions in Tanzania is crucial to meeting UHC goalsThe peer-reviewed study assesses equity and efficiency in health financing across 26 regions in Tanzania for four funding sources in...
The first of its kind in the Central African Republic, this report presents reliable information on the availability of health services, the general operational capacity of services, the availability and operational capacity of specific health services, comprehensive...
The aim of this document is to analyze the care packages within the health district proposed in both national guidelines and current international trends, in order to propose interventions appropriate to the current situation in CAR, which will be the subject of the...
Access to diagnostic testing, particularly basic tests at the primary care level, exhibits a notable disparity within low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs). It is crucial for these countries to incorporate diagnostics into their universal health coverage...
The Universal Maternal and Child Insurance was created to provide a list of health benefits to pregnant women from the beginning of pregnancy until 6 months after delivery and to children from birth to 5 years of age. The Universal Maternal and Child Insurance was...
