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NEWS | 27 Aug 2021
VSS to promote digital transformation for participants of social and health insurance in the new situation
Vietnam
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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
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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
POST | 18 May 2021
How can decades of learning from voucher schemes in Uganda inform ongoing purchasing reforms?
Uganda
This blog highlights an extensive study of the latest two reproductive, maternal, and newborn health (RMNH) voucher schemes in Uganda conducted jointly by the Uganda Ministry of Health and the Strategic Purchasing for Primary Health Care project implemented by...
DOCUMENT | 07 May 2021
The evolution of social health insurance in Vietnam and its role towards achieving universal health coverage
Vietnam
This study examines the development of social health insurance (SHI) in Vietnam between 1992 and 2016. SHI developmental stages have been identified from legislative changes which led to change in SHI functioning. It has been divided into five stages: Stage I...
NEWS | 20 Apr 2021
Extending work-related social protection to informal workers in Pakistan’s Punjab province
Pakistan
We are happy to share with you the publication titled “Extending work-related social protection to informal workers in Pakistan’s Punjab province”. The Support to Social Protection - Social Health Protection (SP-SHP) project undertook a scoping study to analyse how...
NEWS | 20 Apr 2021
Working in Partnership for SOCIAL HEALTH PROTECTION in Pakistan
Pakistan
We are happy to share with you the publication titled “Working in Partnership for Social Health Protection in Pakistan”. The 14-page report presents insights into German-supported capacity development measures aimed at strengthening Pakistan’s social health protection...