The second Orientation workshop on the health insurance law revision took place in Hanoi on 18th of October 2018. In his opening speech, His Excellency Vice Minister of Health Pham Le Tuan reiterated the Government’s commitment to achieve 95% of coverage and reduce...
Learning Brief No.1: “Strategic” Purchasing: what is it, how are we doing it, and why?
Learning Brief No.2: Where and for whom?
Learning Brief No.3: Determining the Package of Services
Learning Brief No 4: How Much Does it Cost for EHOs to Serve Rural Communities in Hard-to-Reach Settings?
Learning brief No 5: How Much Does it Cost for EHOs to Serve Rural Communities in Hard-to-Reach Settings?
Improving financial protection and access to health care for citizens is the key financing issues in Kyrgyzstan. In 2016, the Ministry of Health of Kyrgyzstan celebrated the anniversary of the mandatory health insurance system – the main vehicle of Universal Health...
In 2018, World Bank's series of UHC Studies was devoted to Azerbaijan. It is aimed at policy-makers and UHC reform implementers in low- and middle-income countries. Over the last decade, Azerbaijan has been able to increase significantly public resources for...
Uzbekistan has embarked on a comprehensive health financing reform to ensure equal access to health care, financial protection and equitable distribution of resources. The latest activity in support of the reform was a policy dialogue which brought together over 100...
The paper published on 20 January 2020 analyses three key issues in the reform of public health care funding in the Russian Federation: the lack of funds to cover the state guarantees of free medical care to the population; the lack of coordination between...
This analysis of the Georgian health system reviews developments in its organization and governance, health financing, health care provision, health reforms and health system performance. Since 2012, political commitment to improving access to health care, to...
People in Latvia will maintain access to healthcare services in the framework of mandatory health insurance by 2021, regardless of insurance payments made. Recently the Latvian parliament passed as draft amendments to the Latvian Healthcare Funding Law in the final...
In 2017, the Estonian government addressed the longstanding challenge of financial sustainability of the health system by expanding its revenue base. As a relatively low-spending country on health, Estonia relies predominantly on payroll contributions from the working...
Reducing out-of-pocket payments for health in order to achieve universal health coverage in Mongolia – The Center for Policy Impact in Global Health Healthcare costs are among the largest barriers to accessing health services and achieving universal health coverage...
This is the first of the learning briefs produced by PSI on strategic purchasing.
