DOCUMENT | 13 Apr 2022
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NEWS | 05 Apr 2022
Going Granular: Equity of Health Financing at the District and Facility Level in India
India
Health financing equity analysis rarely goes below the state level in India. This paper assesses the equity and effectiveness of public spending on health in the state of Odisha. It identifies the weak link between district spending and district need, proxied by...
NEWS | 05 Apr 2022
Illness and Wage Loss: Longitudinal evidence from India
India
The paper quantifies the economic burden of illness due to wage loss and medical care spending, as well as differences in them across the socio-economic distribution. The study used data from Village Dynamics in South Asia (VDSA) survey and the Indian Human...
NEWS | 05 Apr 2022
Addressing data and methodological limitations in estimating catastrophic health spending and impoverishment in India, 2004–18
India
The study data from the health and consumption surveys of National Sample Surveys over 14 years to overcome these limitations and estimated the incidence and intensity of CHE and impoverishment using the capacity-to-pay (CTP) approach. The incidence of CHE for...
DOCUMENT | 12 Mar 2022
Maldives Health Expenditure 2020
Maldives
The 11th Maldives Health Statistics 2020 shows Maldives government’s commitment to provide better health service and social health protection through continuously increased allocation of the budget to the health sector. It shows that current health expenditure...
NEWS | 12 Mar 2022
New document on Maldives health expenditure 2020 is now available
Maldives
The 11th Maldives Health Statistics 2020 shows Maldives government’s commitment to provide better health service and social health protection through continuously increased allocation of the budget to the health sector. It shows that current health expenditure...
DOCUMENT | 27 Feb 2022
Mapping of the national social protection system in Ethiopia, including social health protection
Ethiopia
The mapping of the national social protection system in Ethiopia, including social health insurance, is carried out as part of a joint technical study by the International Labour Organization and partner United Nations agencies.
DOCUMENT | 22 Feb 2022
Niger: Aligning budget support for health – Identifying indicators
Niger
DOCUMENT | 14 Feb 2022
Forgone healthcare and financial burden due to out-of-pocket payments in Bangladesh: a multilevel analysis
Bangladesh
This study aimed to examine the burden of out-of-pocket payment and forgone healthcare in Bangladesh, and further explores the inequalities in catastrophic health expenditures (CHE) and forgone healthcare at the national and sub-national levels. Data came from the...
NEWS | 14 Feb 2022
New document on out-of-pocket payments in Bangladesh is now available
Bangladesh
This study aimed to examine the burden of out-of-pocket payment and forgone healthcare in Bangladesh, and further explores the inequalities in catastrophic health expenditures (CHE) and forgone healthcare at the national and sub-national levels. Data came from the...
DOCUMENT | 31 Jan 2022
National Health Accounts Estimates for India 2017-18
India
This report provides healthcare expenditures in India based on National Health Accounts Guidelines for India, 2016 (with refinements where required) that adhere to System of Health Accounts 2011 (SHA 2011), a global standard framework for producing health accounts....
DOCUMENT | 31 Jan 2022
Out-of-Pocket and Informal Payment Before and After the Health Transformation Plan in Iran: Evidence from Hospitals Located in Kurdistan, Iran
Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Reducing out of pocket (OOP) payments for inpatient services and eradicating informal payments was one of the objectives of Iran’s health transformation plan (HTP). This study determines the change in frequency of OOP payments and informal cash payments for health...
DOCUMENT | 16 Jan 2022
Actuarial study of the proposed single national health insurance (SNHI) scheme in Tanzania: A summary brief
Tanzania (United Republic of)
In 2017, Tanzania proposed the SNHI, building on the existing national health insurance fund’s (NHIF) administrative structures to manage contributions and enrol participants. As of October 2017, NHIF, which primarily provides health insurance for the formal sector,...
DOCUMENT | 26 Dec 2021
Factors contributing to low adherence to community-based health insurance (CBHI) in rural Nyanza district, southern Rwanda
Rwanda
Community-based health insurance (CBHI) is a kind of health insurance targeted at low-income groups and it has the potential to provide financial risk protection against exorbitant medical expenses among them. In Rwanda, CBHI is being implemented across the country...
NEWS | 09 Dec 2021
Launch of the global monitoring reports “Tracking Universal Coverage – 2021 Global Monitoring Report” and “Global Monitoring Report on Financial Protection in Health 2021”
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...