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...
After the socioeconomic transition in 1990, Mongolia has been experiencing demographic and epidemiologic transitions; however, there is lack of evidence on socioeconomic-related inequality in health across the country. The aim of this paper is to evaluate the...
Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) pose a formidable health and development challenge for low and middle income countries (LMICs). However, translating this challenge into resource allocation is seriously constrained by a lack of country specific evidence on NCD...
At the start of his 2nd term, and aligned with Member States’ commitments to the UHC and SDG agenda, the President of Kenya has reached out to the WHO Director General to support the country’s efforts towards UHC. He has made commitments as part of 4 key...
