Qatar has significantly strengthened its healthcare system in the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic, leading to a more robust reputation for health service delivery. As of May 2024, the country successfully administered approximately 7.6 million vaccine doses,...
The Norwegian Social Insurance Scheme, managed by the Ministry of Labour and Social Inclusion, serves as a cornerstone of the nation’s welfare system, ensuring social protection for all residents and certain non-residents under specified conditions. This document...
This country brief for Mongolia by the International Labour Organization (ILO), Social Protection Department, is extracted from ILO’s report: “Extending social health protection: Accelerating progress towards Universal Health Coverage in Asia and the Pacific”. The...
The introduction of Universal Health Insurance (UHI) in Armenia is not going to happen in 2025. On November 1, 2024, Armenian Finance Minister Vahe Hovhannisyan said in the Parliament the draft state budget of Armenia for 2025 does not contain funding for UHI...
It analyzes both the expenditure and the output that this expenditure generates, using official data at the health facility level. The study is complemented by an application that allows the policy maker to query the database, identify improvements in resource...
More than 1,500 people have received their provisional registration cards and certificates for the universal health insurance scheme. Twelve structures have been affiliated and 199,112 have been pre-registered. This was announced by the Minister in charge of of social...
Hospitals in Hungary are sounding alarm as rising debts restrict operations. Past due debt of hospitals reached €300 million in March 2024, caused by the lack of financing reform, amortisation, and rising energy prices, while inflation rates, wage increases, and...
In 2022, healthcare spending in Bangladesh pushed 6.3 million people below the poverty line, with 61% of hospitalized patients experiencing financial trauma. To cope with medical expenses, many individuals resort to selling assets or taking high-interest loans. Health...
The Georgian government is introducing co-payments in the universal health coverage system to allow patient choice and flexibly. Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze said patients who could not choose a preferred provider or certain comfort level during medical care would...
Plans for establishing national health insurance in Antigua and Barbuda were put on hold due to the COVID19 pandemic. The Minister of Health confirms that these plans will now go ahead.Establishing a National Health Insurance was a strategic intervention in the...
As reported by Expats.cz, the Czech government has approved an amendment to the Public Health Insurance Act that could be a game changer for Czech healthcare. The law will enable health insurance companies to allocate significantly more funds toward disease...
Act LXXXIII of 1997 in Hungary is a law that defines the Hungarian health care system, including which services are free, which are covered by copayment, and which are excluded from prepaid public benefit schemes. This law also establishes the financing of health care...
Slovakia lost to EU Court of Justice in September over continuous late payments by public hospitals to their vendors. An average payment delay was 397 days. Amid growing health financing struggles of the state-owned General Health Insurance Company and budget...
The Digital Medical Profile (DMP) will enhance compulsory medical insurance and support the goal of increasing life expectancy to 78 years, said Ilya Balanin at the National Healthcare Congress. The Federal Register of Insured Persons enables digital insurance...
The paper examines how Rwanda’s community-based health insurance (CBHI) program influences household healthcare expenditures. Using survey data, the study finds that CBHI significantly reduces out-of-pocket healthcare costs, with an 83% decrease in per capita...
