From introducing health insurance for the Jordanian Armed Forces in 1963 to a full-fledged civilian health insurance programme amended as recently as January 2022, Jordan has come a long way in strengthening social health protection. The Jordan country page now...
This study explores possibilities for strengthening the Lebanese health insurance model and extending social health protection to uncovered workers, including those in the informal economy. The situation assessment analyses the health system and the health financing...
This study explores possibilities for strengthening the Lebanese health insurance model and extending social health protection to uncovered workers, including those in the informal economy. The situation assessment analyses the health system and the health financing...
The executive director of the IHSS, Adriana Zúñiga, proposes to the health commission of the National Congress that the institute joins the efforts for the creation of the new Social Security Law, allowing the expansion of coverage based on updated actuarial studies....
This strategy describes the implementation process of the free healthcare initiative as announced by the Sierra Leone President at the 2009 United Nations General assembly. The full document can be accessed using the link below
The first 100 stakeholders participating in the delivery of the National Health Insurance Project (Dhamani) have now been onboarded and registered on the Dhamani platform underpinning the implementation of the compulsory health insurance programme in the Sultanate of...
On 16 March 2022 the P4H Network hosted the first of two webinars on social health protection and health financing reforms in three countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). P4H hosted the webinar in collaboration with the World Health...
The Ministry of Health has decided to set up a committee to reflect on and monitor the implementation of the CSU pilot phase. This committee's mission is to propose the documents required to operationalize the CSU's operational phase at the end of 2021. Working group...
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,...
By the relevant decision of the Government of Uzbekistan, Dr Farrukh Rakhimovich Sharipov has been appointed as the Executive Director of the State Health Insurance Fund. Farrukh Sharipov was born in 1969 in the Samarkand region. He started his career as a...
The COVID-19 pandemic came with a lot of uncertainties and has had a significant impact on not only the health sector but also on the economy especially in low and middle income countries. However, it also presented an opportunity for governments to be innovative in...
"The Social Protection System Review is intended to contribute to the implementation of the Social Protection Policy Framework. It provides analysis and recommendations to lay the foundations for a comprehensive and sustainable social protection system."
Oman’s public health sector partnered with private healthcare institutions that helped in lessening the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the country. Private sector participation increased the country’s hospitalization capacity, handled the overflow of patients from...
