The document shows the evolution of health insurance coverage (CAS) in Peru for the period 2009-2017. It also evaluates the main associated demographic, social and economic factors, using a secondary analysis of the National Household Survey. For each year, they...
The National Health Plan 2022-2032 seeks to characterize a joint vision between social security and other entities that make up the health system in the Dominican Republic. It proposes to provide health insurance to the 278 municipalities, which are the main actors of...
On October 20, 2022, the Ministry of Health of Ukraine published annual financial and budget reports for the past year of 2021 on its website. Publishing healthcare financing reports is a good practice for transparency and public accountability. Among the documents...
The Government of Chile has extended free medical care to everyone in the public health system, establishing the “zero copayment” as one of the key steps to move towards a universal health-care system. However, some other broader reforms on health will not have the...
After 08 years of implementation program based budgeting, the Ministry of Health has deemed it necessary to ensure consistency between the performance indicators of the program budget and those monitored by the Ministry of Health through DHIS2 at national level. ...
The Ministry of Health in Cameroon has increased the number of programs under Program Based Budgeting mechanism from 4 programs to 5 programs. The five programs under Program Based Budgeting mechanisms are: P1) Health promotion and nutrition, (P2) Disease prevention,...
Bottlenecks related to the execution of health expenditures are often related to the public financial management rules and procedures put in place. These procedures are sometimes incompatible and creates hurdles for the Ministry of Health to react quickly to a health...
In the fight against COVID-19, Cameroon refocussed the state budget in the year 2020. A special account called "Special National Solidarity Fund for the fight against the Coronavirus and its economic and social repercussions" was created under the yearly budget law as...
As a part of the ongoing reforms to modernize the Public Financial Management in Cameroon, the Ministry of Finance organized a conference on the execution of the State budget for the financial year 2021. The objective was to examine the problems that pose bottlenecks...
The Ministry of Health in 2019 developed a transition table between the program budget and the strategic axes of National Health Development Plan to ensure that heath sector resources are oriented on priority activities and facilitate the monitoring of key indicators....
From July 1, Belarus canceled COVID-19 related allowances (additional payments) for doctors and nurses working with COVID-19 positive patients, but introduced new permanent bonuses, which are tied to a percentage of the salary, depending on the complexity and...
A decree ratifying a loan of around 59 billion FCFA signed in July between the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire and the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank to finance the Covid-19 strategic preparedness and response project was adopted by the Council of Ministers at the...
This article assesses the impact of the HIV and COVID-19 pandemics and debt dynamics on health, HIV and pandemic preparedness and response-related financing in developing countries. Using a novel dataset, the study does a cross-national systematic analysis of all data...
For the first time in history, Kazakhstan is adopting a law on medical malpractice insurance. The Minister of Healthcare of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Azhar Giniyat, presented the draft law to the lower chamber of Parliament - Mazhilis. This law was developed...
President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev approved the implementation of the second stage of the project to modernize oncological hospitals with the help from Islamic Development Bank (IDB) in 2022-2026. The cost of the project is about $122 million, including: the...
