The purpose of the law is to establish the legal mechanisms for the financing and management of special programs for the preservation of public health and social assistance. The law that created the Solidarity Fund for Health (FOSALUD) in El Salvador emphasizes the...
On May 2, 2024, the standing committee on social policy and the general session of the Parliament of Mongolia approved the draft revision of the Law on Medicines and Medical Devices, which was submitted to the Parliament for urgent review. Minister of Health S....
Kenya is currently undergoing a transition from the 57-year-old National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF) to the Social Health Insurance Fund (SHIF). This shift aims to ensure equitable access to healthcare services for the impoverished and those in the informal sector...
The Mandatory Health Insurance Fund of Kyrgyzstan has explained that citizens of the Russian Federation, the Republic of Kazakhstan, Belarus and Armenia, member-countries of the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU), who arrived and work legally in Kyrgyzstan, are considered...
El Plan Estratégico Institucional (PEI) plantea los aspectos estratégicos y operativos que contribuyen a mejorar la salud de la población guatemalteca según sus ciclos de vida El PEI del Ministerio de Salud Pública y Asistencia Social (MSPAS) tiene como objetivo el...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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)...
