Over five million Egyptian citizens have been registered for the country's Universal Health Insurance System in the governorates of the first phase, the cabinet's Information and Decision Support Centre said Saturday. The figures announced are around 85 percent...
A new document has been uploaded on South Africa's country page. The document discusses the development process of the 2019 National Health Insurance (NHI) bill against the backdrop of the country’s political and social context. The document can be...
Three new documents have been uploaded on the across Africa regional page. All three documents focus on assessing the financing mechanisms that have been put in place in the Southern Africa Development Community and sub-Saharan African countries in...
Three new documents on NHIS have recently been uploaded to the documents section of the Nigeria country page. One peer reviewed article examining the purchaser-provider relationship within a conical health insurance scheme which was published in 2018. The other looks...
A new document has been recently uploaded to the documents section of the Sierra Leone country page. The document assesses the determinants of willingness among the people to pay a premium for the social health insurance. The document can be...
The health financing system in Afghanistan remains fragile due to high out-of-pocket spending and reliance on donor funding. Households’ out-of-pocket expenditures or direct payments for health services account for 73% of total health expenditure with 75% of the...
This study assessed the utilization of health care and associated factors amongst the federal civil servants using the NHIS in Rivers state, Nigeria. It is a descriptive cross-sectional study using self-administered questionnaires. Findings show that out of a total of...
Health insurance is an important mechanism to improve access to healthcare and prevent financial hardship and attain universal health coverage. Although it has been over almost two decades since the launch of the NHIS, only 5% of Nigerians have health insurance and...
The government of Gambia envisioned providing quality and affordable health services for all by 2020. This national health policy provided a clear direction to all relevant stakeholders in the health sector for implementation of interventions in the sector to improve...
This study examines how satisfied the Saudi people are with their public sector healthcare services and assesses their willingness to contribute to financing the system through a national health insurance scheme. The sustainability of the public sector healthcare...
The Government of Namibia provides a significant proportion of funding to subsidize the PSEMAS for public servants. As part of efforts to ensure value for money, the Government is pursuing reforms to the scheme. A technical committee was set up early in 2021 to...
An article providing a summary on reforming the public service medical aid scheme (PSEMAS) in Namibia has been posted in the document section. The link can be found below.
In 2013, the Kingdom of Qatar introduced a national health insurance scheme called ‘Seha’. It is regulated by the Supreme Council of Health (SCH) through the country’s National Health Insurance Company. This paper outlines the SHC’s health insurance pricing approach...
On 31/12/2020, the Chadian National Assembly unanimously adopted the law creating the National Health Insurance Fund. This law was promulgated on the same day by the Head of State, the Marshal of Chad, Idriss Déby ITNO. Passage and promulgation of the...
This journal article gives insight into Lebanon’s healthcare response to the COVID 19 pandemic with limited financial resources and an increasingly private and urban health sector. It suggests that 80% of the health care budget in Lebanon is spent on acute care in...
