"This manual is designed for stakeholders who will be involved in implementing UHC. It is intended to stimulate active learning through discussions, group exercises, and experience sharing e.t.c. The main objectives of UHC are: To increase population covered by...
The Government of Kenya has shown commitment to implementing Universal Health Coverage as one of its "Big Four Agenda" with the aim to ensure that all individuals and communities in Kenya have access to quality essential health services without...
Presentation of the UCH Priorities (up til 2024) - Dr Johansson, University of Bergen
Achieving Universal Health Coverage (UHC) is a key health policy goal in many countries and some form of National Health Insurance (NHI) is used to make progress towards UHC. The Philippines has had more than 50 years’ experience with social health insurance which is...
The present publication accompanies the capacity-building activities being conducted on leaving no one behind in the context of sub-national health system strengthening in Mongolia. It was piloted during the last quarter of 2016 through a process involving workshops...
Data published by WHO coming from National Health Accounts (NHA) 2015 show that the lowest rates of out-of-pocket payments in relation to Current Health Expenditure (CHE) are found in Southern African countries: Botswana, Mozambique, South Africa, Namibia, Lesotho,...
The World Bank approved $105 million equivalent in non-reimbursable grants for the Government of Mozambique’s Primary Health Care Strengthening Program‐for‐Results. Of this amount, $25 million equivalent is provided by the Global Finance Facility (GFF)*, and $80...
This paper examines the process of developing social health insurance in Mongolia during 1994-2004, and its successes, challenges and lessons. The development of compulsory health insurance in Mongolia shows that a prepaid health insurance mechanism based on risk...
Health promotion is receiving more attention in Mongolia. A survey is undertaken to examine health promotion in terms of health-related information, education, counseling, screening, and preventive and medical checkups. There are several factors that limit the...
This paper is the second paper that reviews social health insurance development in Mongolia during 2005-2015. The first paper from 2005 reviewed mandatory health insurance development during 1994-2004. During these years, health insurance brought many new features for...
The aim of this study was to analyze the incidence of catastrophic health expenditures and to measure the rate of impoverishment from health care payments under the social health insurance scheme in Mongolia. Data from the 2012 Household Socio-Economic Survey was...
