Welcome to the latest issue of 'Stories from the field', all about how countries are working to achieve universal health coverage. In Issue 6 we share Samoa's approach to tackling the problem of non-communicable diseases through a primary health care approach. We...
Welcome to a new issue of Stories from the field, with great features about Sri Lanka's focus on primary health care, and Oman's work on patient safety. In 2019, we will continue to share your many stories of change from the field. If you have a...
From January 24 to 25, 2019, the Ministry of Public Health organized jointly with the Swiss Cooperation Office a planning workshop for the second phase of the support program for health districts in Chad. The workshop brought together state institutions, technical and...
Data of Bugdet Household Surveys have been compiled to estimate incidence of catastrophic expenditure in Africa, available at McIntyre, D. et al (2018): Challenges in Financing Universal Health Coverage in Sub-Saharan Africa, published by the Oxford Encyclopedia of...
Hot off the press - Groundbreaking report on Global Health Financing from WHO Shaping the future of Health Systems : lessons from Global health expenditure Things are moving fast in the health sector! Global expenditure in health illustrate this trend, which the...
The National Health and Social Development Plan III (2019-2028) is the reference document for the Senegalese government's health policy. This new plan will consolidate the achievements of previous plans and is adapted to current needs and to national, sub-regional and...
This paper analyses the introduction and expansion of health insurance schemes in Tanzania. Health insurances were introduced around year 2000 as part of a more general health reform process aimed at improving access to health services. The paper argues that the...
40 years after the Declaration of Alma-Ata on primary health care Astana Declaration sets the course for achieving universal health coverage. Countries from around the world have signed the Astana Declaration, reaffirming their desire to strengthen primary health care...
From 25 to 26 October, the Global Conference on Primary Health Care was held in Astana, Kazakhstan, together with WHO, UNICEF and the Government of Kazakhstan. The countries have signed the Astana Declaration on PHC "From Almaty to Universal Healthcare Coverage and...
The architecture of universal health coverage can be defined as a coherent set of mechanisms or instruments for pooling and managing funds to enable the collective assumption of expenses linked to people's access to health care and services. These mechanisms include...
In combination with specific measures to promote employment, the Strategy for Growth and Employment (2010-2020), adopted by the Government of Cameroon, includes human development among the key factors supporting economic growth. To gradually enhance human capital, the...
As part of the 2017-2022 Health Sector Strategic Plan II (HSSP II) towards Universal Health Coverage (UHC), Malawi released an updated set of National Health Indicators and accompanying targets. hese indicators support monitoring for the Ministry of Health and...
The Decentralization programme has been going on in Malawi for 20 years now. Indeed a lot has happened considering that the first phase in the late 1990s was for laying the ground works relating to addressing capacity gaps and this was followed by the second phase...
A meeting of interaction between Interstate Commission of the CIS Member States and World Health Organization was held today in Astana. The representatives from CIS Member States, World Health Organization, Ministry of Health, Republican Center for Health...
