In 2019, the South African government committed to establishing a National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) Fund to ensure that the most vulnerable are protected from catastrophic expenditures from medical expenses to attain universal health coverage. This NHI Act,...
Thailand achieved universal health coverage (UHC) with three public health insurance schemes in 2002. This study examines how political economy factors influenced the evolution of universal health coverage reform in Thailand by applying the political economy...
Burundi to honor the international declarations and commitments to which the country has subscribed in terms of health, has developed a framework and is implementing its health policy to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as part of the World Program for...
There is growing evidence that political economy factors are important for adopting health financing reforms, but there is little consensus about which political and institutional factors determine the results of reform proposals. This study examined efforts at health...
The 11th Maldives Health Statistics 2020 shows Maldives government’s commitment to provide better health service and social health protection through continuously increased allocation of the budget to the health sector. It shows that current health expenditure...
The Jordanian National Social Protection Strategy articulates the Government’s commitment to break the intergenerational cycle of poverty and provide a social protection floor in the context of the Kingdom’s vision for a state that has social justice, equity, and...
This document gives an overview of the health care transformation envisioned in Saudi Arabia’s “Vision 2030”, spelling out the underlying national goals. Led by the Ministry of Health and developed in close collaboration with the National Transformation Program, it...
The Health Vision 2050 document lays out the Omani vision for its health system to be in future. It consists of, among other things, a chapter on sustainable health system financing that focuses on improving equity and ensuring financial protection for all. The...
The Bhutan National Health Accounts (NHA) provides the financial flows of the national health expenditures to fulfill health needs of the populations in Bhutan. Source of financing from government, households, donors, employers, and health insurers were identified....
This chapter from The Report: Bahrain 2020 published by Oxford Business Group outlines how the country’s health insurance system functions in terms of mobilization of funds, government healthcare expenditure as a percentage of GDP and the public primary health care...
This document complements the 2018-2024 Health sector strategic plan, focussing on health financing. Health financing is a core function of health systems that can enable progress towards universal health coverage (UHC) by improving effective service coverage by...
The Rwanda fourth health sector strategic plan (HSSP IV) is the guiding document outlining national strategic directions to improve health standards of Rwandans between 2018-2024. Its content reflects a comprehensive analysis of the Rwanda’s health sector progress and...
A stronger national health financing system provides a stronger foundation for the broader health system. Health financing thus serves as pivot upon which other health system building blocks revolve and rest. Achieving universal health coverage (UHC) and all the...
A new report titled “Can people afford to pay for health care?” was published by the WHO Barcelona Office for health financing and published in 2021. Authored by Ketevan Goginashvili, Mamuka Nadareishvili and Triin Habicht, this publication is part of a series of...
Social health insurance is a health financing mechanism that pools the risk of its members, and their financial contributions. The major contributors are the households, enterprises and government. These contributions serve to pay for health services, thereby giving...
