The Institutional Strategic Plan 2019-2023 was the result of a collaborative process that had a multi-sectoral working vision. It is aligned with national and international policies and commitments assumed by the Republic of Paraguay. The three institutional...
Ecuador: Institutional Strategic Plan 2021 – 2025
This plan includes a first chapter with a diagnosis and analysis of the Institution to determine its initial situation. The second chapter presents the guiding elements and sets out the vision, mission, axes and strategic objectives. The third chapter concludes with...
Dominican Republic: National Strategic Health Plan 2030
The National Strategic Health Plan 2030 is a general guide that presents an integral and holistic vision of the health sector in the Dominican Republic and establishes the roadmap for the health sector in the medium term.The objective of the Strategic Plan 2030 is to...
Decree setting up the CSU steering committee in Burundi
In February 2024, the Ministry of Public Health organized a dialogue on financing the healthcare system from internal resources. This dialogue recommended the creation of a Steering Committee to monitor the process of setting up Universal Health Coverage (UHC) in...
Poland’s National Health Program 2021-2025
The Ministry of Health of Poland published the National Health Program (NHP) which serves as a strategic public health document and provides the foundation for actions in this domain. As stipulated in Article 9 of the Public Health Act of September 11, 2015, the...
Decree implementing AMO-Benin
This decree defines the implementation of compulsory health insurance in the Republic of Benin.Health insurance is taken out either with the National Social Welfare Agency or any successor public body, or with an insurance company or organization approved in Benin or...
Decree extending the Social Security Law of Honduras
This extension of the law includes the decree that specifies the benefits covered by the Honduran Social Security Institute and describes how this institution should operate.
What Can Value for Money in Health Care Learn from the Regulatory World?
The Centre for Global Development blog post by Javier Guzman discusses how Health Technology Assessment (HTA) systems can benefit from the experience of regulatory systems.The article argues that while the two have different goals (regulatory systems ensure safety and...

Disappointment and reaction of healthcare actors to the financial framework
The Social Security Financing Bill for 2024 was adopted on Wednesday September 27 by the Council of Ministers.The hospital federations (FHF, FHP, Fehap, Fnehad and Unicancer) agree that the level of inflation was "notoriously underestimated" when drawing up the 2023...

The government’s program for the health insurance branch
On September 27, the government said it knew how to reduce healthcare expenditure by 3.5 billion euros by 2024.According to the Social Security Financing Bill (PLFSS) for 2024, without new savings measures, the national health insurance expenditure target (Ondam)...

Financing investment in the healthcare sector
The Haut conseil pour l'avenir de l'Assurance maladie (Hcaam) assesses the state of France's healthcare sector and presents its recommendations.Last November, the Hcaam published five documents to shed light on the mechanisms of healthcare investment and its...
Decree approving RAMU agreements
This decree approves standard models for national and individual agreements. The standard models of national and individual agreements governing relations between universal health insurance scheme management bodies and public or private health care providers, in...
Supreme Decree: Basic Health Insurance in Bolivia
This Supreme Decree 25265 established that children under 5 years of age, pregnant women in Bolivia had the right to access a basic package of preventive and curative health services, and the general population to the diagnosis and treatment of some communicable...
Law determining the Fundamental Principles of Health
Law 2022-34 lays down the essential rules governing public health and hygiene in the Republic of Niger. It was adopted by the French President on July 11, 2022. Having heard the Council of Ministers, the National Assembly deliberates and adopts, the President of the...
Collection of health legislation in Niger
La réalisation d'un Recueil de Législation Sanitaire répond au souci de faire connaître aux professionnels de la santé, aux services et établissements sanitaires et à toute personne intéressée, les principaux textes juridiques qui régissent le domaine de la...