Bahrain will bring in compulsory health insurance for expatriates later this year and citizens from 2023. The net result will be a fall in outbound medical tourism. The Supreme Council of Health and Aon Bahrain* have signed an agreement on the...
Egypt's comprehensive universal health insurance law (2018) has been accompanied by a number of decisive steps by the country's government to make it effective. It was followed by the launch of a package of health reforms to expedite the provision of service to the...
Health Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe says the Kenyan government is committed to expanding health service coverage with a focus on quality as well as reduction of healthcare costs. Speaking in Malindi while inaugurating board of directors of the, National Health...
Global commitment to achieving universal health coverage (UHC) has led to increasing attention on health purchasing. Purchasing is one of the key health financing functions that provides the critical link between resources mobilized for health and the effective...
The government of Uganda is in process of implementing the national health insurance scheme (NHIS)with the goal of improving financial risk protection and attaining universal health coverage. In this article see the questions to and the responses from the chief...
The Costa Rican Social Security Fund's 2020 annual report covers all of its activities including health and the response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Political Constitution of the Republic recognizes that the enjoyment of health is a fundamental human right without discrimination of any kind, and obliges the State to ensure it. The Guatemalan Health Code defines the responsibility of citizens and obligations of...
In this judgment, the Constitutional Court addresses several cases in which the protection of the right to health is invoked. These cases refer to various situations in which the required access to health services was denied.
Health sector measures are adopted to contain and mitigate the COVID-19 pandemic and to ensure the delivery of health services.
Law 87-01 of 2001 creates the National Social Security System in the Dominican Republic.
The General Social Security Health System guarantees to all persons residing in Colombia, all health services and technologies for the promotion of health, prevention, diagnosis, treatment, rehabilitation and palliation of the disease, with the exception of those...
Purchasing is a critical function of health financing which links resources mobilized in the health sector to effective delivery of quality healthcare services. Strategic purchasing therefore can help a country improve financial risk protection for the vulnerable...
The Minister of Health, Joe Phaahla recently participated in a written parliamentary Q&A where he said that the South Africa’s new National Health Insurance (NHI) scheme is set to be introduced in several stages and not all at once. The minister said, It is...
Turkmenistan has raised excise rates on tobacco products, as well as on other manufactured tobacco and industrial tobacco substitutes. Changes to the excise rates were made in accordance with the Law of Turkmenistan “On Making Addenda and Amendments to the Tax Code of...
The document includes the programmatic framework of the National Health System and includes four priority programs: equitable access of the population to quality health services, health safety, emergencies and catastrophes, health promotion and strengthening of the...
