Here are a group of five documents on the sustainable financing of healthcare in Saudi Arabia, prospects of a national health insurance system to extend the scope of health coverage and the country’s healthcare transformation strategy. Two research papers look at the...
Saudi Arabia has set out plans to invest $66 billion in healthcare infrastructure and boost the private sector participation by 2030. The Kingdom plans to boost private sector participation from 40% to 65%. This comes after the Saudi Council of Cooperative...
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s top priorities in the healthcare sector are enhancing the role of the private sector through privatisation of government healthcare services, increasing public-private participation (PPP) healthcare delivery models, scaling up education...
The Saudi Ministry of Health aspires to increase the private sector’s participation in the sector from to 35 percent by 2030 from 25 percent. The ministry is working with partners in the private sector and across government to implement a package of initiatives...
Two documents have been uploaded in the Qatar Country page. One is on the 2015 pricing for the national health insurance scheme at the time in Qatar, called ‘Seha’. The second one is an assessment of the country’s improving health financing and social health...
The Health Vision 2050 document lays out the Omani vision for its health system to be in future. It consists of, among other things, a chapter on sustainable health system financing that focuses on improving equity and ensuring financial protection for all. The...
Two research articles and one policy document have been recently uploaded to the Oman country page documents section. The articles give insight on the Omani healthcare system, access to free primary health care and its goal of universal health coverage. The policy...
This paper outlines the initiatives taken by the Ministry of Public Health (MOPH) to finance the existing network of health services and create additional services since the end of the Lebanese civil war in 1992. It describes the country’s health system in terms of...
Afrique contre le tabac (ACONTA) launched the report on the tobacco industry's interference index in Burkina Faso. It was on Monday, October 25, 2021 in Ouagadougou, in the presence of several institutions partners in the fight against this public health phenomenon,...
To curb the government expenditure as well as household spending on medical expenses, Maldives plans to impose price ceiling on pharmaceutical drugs next year to prevent excessive pharmaceutical drug use and prescription. In addition, Maldives also plans to work on...
While most discussions surrounding the private-public partnerships in health care focuses on financing infrastructure, in Israel, the public-private mix has become a central way of financing and delivering services in wake of diminishing public funding. This paper...
We are pleased to draw your attention to four new reports and journal papers on our Israel country page. Three peer-reviewed papers discuss Israel’s public-private partnership in delivering health care services in the presence of the National Health Insurance Law...
In this paper, the author analyses how UHC is being implemented in the health financing system of Tanzania and also how PPPs are contributing towards the attainment of UHC. A cross sectional survey was conducted in the Kilimanjaro region in Tanzania to evaluate the...
The government of Kenya, declared UHC, as one of the “Big Four” strategic pillars, an initiative which will see major policy and administrative reforms in the medical sector, to ensure everyone has access to quality and affordable medical coverage by...
The individual consultant will participate in the knowledge management workstream of the P4H network workplan. His / her functions will include the documentation of health financing and social health protection reforms and processes through the P4H digital platform....
