The Health Policy and Planning Journal by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine launched a Supplement on Rethinking External Assistance supported by the Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research, World Health Organization Department of Health...
How to Finance More Resilient Health Systems When Money Is Tight? Addressing economic challenges, the publication proposes transformative policies and improved budgetary governance for resilient health systems, aiming at fiscal sustainability. Finding sufficient funds...
A global review of opportunities, best practices, emerging trends & pitfalls in application of Artificial Intelligence-Machine Learning technologies in the area of healthcare financing for UHC and their relevance to the Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana in...
The P4H Network’s flagship programme, Leadership for UHC (L4UHC), has been held in fifteen countries to date. Conceived as a journey of reflection, discovery and action for senior leaders, participants have described the programme as “one of the best things that ever...
WHO and World Bank organised South-East Asia UHC training on measuring financial protection highlighted varied forgone healthcare among older populations, and urged consistent measurement and data access.In a recent training on measuring financial protection for...
The Centre for Indonesia's Strategic Development and Initiatives recently published and launched a White Paper on Indonesia's Health Sector Development (2024-2023). The Paper includes 14 Chapters. This Chapter titled Invest Wisely, Execute Strategically, Achieve More-...
Age-adjusting expenditure on health A part of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Health Working Papers series, this paper assesses health system performance over time or across countries often means comparing populations with age...
Inter-American Development Bank publication estimates the efficiency of health spending in 145 middle and high- income and the potential gains from improving efficiency for a range of health system outputs using Data Envelopment Analysis for 2010- 2014 and 2015- 2019...
Thursday 26 October | 1400 h CET The WHO Health Financing and Economics (HFE) Department is organizing a Webinar to demonstrate the WHO Cross-Programmatic Efficiency Analysis (CPEA)While health programmes are critical to advocate and provide access to priority...
BMJ Global Health has published a series of research papers on health taxes in the October 2023 issue titled WHO: Health Taxes supported by the Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research in collaboration with WHO Departments and the Inter-Agency Working Group on...
This policy note compares the healthcare coverage for migrant workers in the six GCC states – Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates. This report solely examines the legal provisions and does not evaluate migrant workers’ actual...
This study provides an assessment of the cost burden of obesity-related comorbidities (ORC) in Kuwait. The study confirms that ORCs generate a significant financial burden to the public payer. The study provides an economic case for policymakers to recognize the...
WHO Barcelona Office for Health Systems Financing has published a report titled "Strengthening primary health care financing: policy considerations for Kyrgyzstan" in September 2023. The report describes how primary health care (PHC) is organized and financed in...
The 10th Tanzania Health Summit was held from 3-5 October in Dar-Es-Salaam, Tanzania under the theme, 'Strengthening health systems for UHC, focusing on Primary Health Care.'The conference saw participation from various stakeholders of the health sector in Tanzania...
The National Health Insurance Authority of Ghana WHO (Africa Region) organised the first regional conference on financing universal health coverage (UHC) and health security from 12 to 13 October in Accra, Ghana.As powered by the NHIS and the WHO from October 12 to...
