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NEWS | 20 Oct 2021
Viet Nam Social Security staff trained to better understand and respond to health insurance members’ needs
Vietnam
348 results
NEWS | 12 Oct 2021
Household health expenditure rises by 52% last four years
Mozambique
The recent Household Budget Survey 2019-20 published end of September shows a relevant 52% increase in household health expenditures. However, expenditure level continues to be low, passing from 90 Mzn (1,5€) in the last report of 2014-15 to 139 Mzn (1,8€) per...
NEWS | 10 Sep 2021
Promoting solutions to develop participants of social and health insurance in the last months of the year
Vietnam
https://vss.gov.vn/english/news/Pages/vietnam-social-security.aspx?CateID=198&ItemID=9988
DOCUMENT | 27 Aug 2021
Patient-Centered Care: Transforming the Health Care System in Vietnam With Support of Digital Health Technology
Vietnam
'The aim of this paper was to explore the opportunities, challenges, and necessary conditions for Vietnam in transforming toward a patient-centered care model to produce better health for people and reduce health care costs.'
NEWS | 27 Aug 2021
VSS to promote digital transformation for participants of social and health insurance in the new situation
Vietnam
https://vss.gov.vn/english/news/Pages/vietnam-social-security.aspx?ItemID=9975&CateID=198
POST | 27 Jul 2021
Implementing UHC in the Philippines: Is the glass half full or half empty?
Philippines
Christian Edward Nuevo¹, Maria Eufemia Yap¹, Matt Boxshall², & Nirmala Ravishankar² ThinkWell, Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines ThinkWell, Washington DC, United States of America Correspondence to Christian Edward Nuevo (email: ian.nuevo@gmail.com)...
POST | 27 Jul 2021
Policy and Implementation Insights on Provider Payment Reforms of the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation
Philippines
Dredge, R., Nuevo, C. E., Paterno, A. R. (2021) The Philippine Universal Health Care (UHC) Law of 2019 introduced system-level reforms on health financing, particularly for the provider payment mechanisms of the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation...
POST | 17 Jul 2021
Can Armenia Better Leverage its Basic Benefit Package for Universal Health Coverage?
Armenia
Nicole Fraser, Adanna Chukwuma, Marianna Koshkakaryan, Lusine Yengibaryan, Xiaohui Hou, Tommy Wilkinson, Christina Meyer When Armenia introduced its first Basic Benefits Package (BBP) in 1997, the average life expectancy at birth was 70 years and the under-five...
DOCUMENT | 16 Jul 2021
Public-Private Partnerships for Health in Vietnam : Issues and Options
Vietnam
“This book describes the nature of public-private partnerships (PPPs) in the health sector in Vietnam. It defines health-related PPPs, describes their key characteristics, and develops a taxonomy of the different types of PPPs that exist in practice, illustrated by...
POST | 15 Jul 2021
Partnership collaboration in the area of health financing and social health protection for UHC
1 The high-level policy goal of universal health coverage and the rights-based social health protection frameworkThe COVID-19 pandemic has increased the visibility of the importance of a social safety net in all countries, including for health. This increased...
NEWS | 04 Jun 2021
Viet Nam: Officially using HI card’s image on VssID for medical treatment from June 1, 2021
Vietnam
https://vss.gov.vn/english/news/Pages/vietnam-social-security.aspx?ItemID=9869&CateID=198
NEWS | 02 Jun 2021
Learning Brief No.7 on Strategic Purchasing in Myanmar by PSI
Myanmar
Stakeholder engagement
NEWS | 02 Jun 2021
Learning Brief No.8 on Strategic Purchasing in Myanmar by PSI
Myanmar
Incentivizing private provision of Primary Health Care in a remote area (Initial Phase)
NEWS | 02 Jun 2021
Learning Brief No.9 on Strategic Purchasing in Myanmar by PSI
Myanmar
Adding hospital-based child delivery care services to the benefit package
NEWS | 02 Jun 2021
A 2018 assessment on UHC progress in Myanmar
Myanmar
Progress towards universal health coverage in Myanmar: a national and subnational assessment The article was published in The Lancet in 2018. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-109X(18)30318-8/fulltext