The event presents key findings from the upcoming Global Monitoring Reports on UHC and Financial Protection 2021, which include new estimates of global and regional pre-pandemic trends in essential health service coverage and financial hardship, a conceptual framework...
National Health Accounts (NHA) provide the information on flows of health financing and resource allocation of the country's health system from both public and private health spending. Philippines NHA showed that share of total health expenditures significantly...
National Health Accounts (NHA) provide the information about the flow of resources and funds of the country’s health system. NHA illustrates national health spending of the country from public and private sector, including household spending. Thus, NHA is useful for...
The Bhutan National Health Accounts (NHA) provides the financial flows of the national health expenditures to fulfill health needs of the populations in Bhutan. Source of financing from government, households, donors, employers, and health insurers were identified....
National Health Accounts (NHA) provide the information about the flow of resources and funds of the country’s health system. NHA illustrates national health spending of the country from public and private sector, including household spending. Thus, NHA is useful for...
The Geneva Health Forum and the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute are pleased to invite you to the GHF Virtual Roundtable, "Improving Health Insurance Coverage in LMICs" taking place on Monday, 22 November 2021, 12:00-14:00 CET, with simultaneous translation...
A new report titled “Can people afford to pay for health care?” was published by the WHO Barcelona Office for health financing and published in 2021. Authored by Ketevan Goginashvili, Mamuka Nadareishvili and Triin Habicht, this publication is part of a series of...
A high proportion of Tanzania’s total health spending comes from foreign donors and households’ out-of- pocket (OOP) spending, rather than from sustainable sources such as government tax-based revenue or health insurance. Over reliance on OOP can expose households to...
In this paper, the author analyses how UHC is being implemented in the health financing system of Tanzania and also how PPPs are contributing towards the attainment of UHC. A cross sectional survey was conducted in the Kilimanjaro region in Tanzania to evaluate the...
The Kenyan government made a commitment to achieve UHC by the year 2022, embodied in the governments big 4 agenda that includes healthcare for all as one of the key development goals. Prioritizing UHC as a global and country health policy goal has highlighted the need...
This report assesses the Kenyan health financing system in light of ongoing reforms and the Government of Kenya’s (GOK’s) ambitious commitments to achieve universal health coverage (UHC) through multiple initiatives. International experience suggests that effective...
UHC, referring to access to healthcare without financial burden, has received renewed attention in global health spheres. UHC is a potential goal in the post-2015 development agenda. Monitoring of progress towards achieving UHC is thus critical at both country and...
Nepal has implemented the Social Health Insurance (SHI) scheme in February 2015, aiming to enhance financial protection through the pre-payment approach as well as risk pooling in the health sector This study assessed the performance of the SHI scheme in terms of...
Nepal has implemented the Social Health Insurance (SHI) scheme in February 2015, aiming to enhance financial protection through the pre-payment approach as well as risk pooling in the health sector This study assessed the performance of the SHI scheme in terms of...
The webinar series titled Health Financing in India was launched to bring together national and international health systems and financing experts, economists, and researchers to discuss the burning health financing and social health protection issues in the country...
