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Starting in the financial year 2018/19, the Ministry of Health (MOH) began implementing Results-Based Financing (RBF) under the Uganda Reproductive, Maternal, and Child Health Improvement Project (URMCHIP). To operationalize RBF, the MOH introduced performance-linked...
This year’s Global Health Expenditure Report: Rising to the Pandemic's Challenges reveals how health expenditure was impacted during 2020, the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. The report explores: Whether the health spending patterns by governments, households,...
The II National Forum of Healthcare Leaders was held On November 11-12, 2022 in the capital of Kazakhstan, Astana. The forum was organized by the Kazakhstani Association of Healthcare Managers, accredited by the Ministry of Healthcare, and co-hosted by the P4H Global...
During the COVID-19 pandemic, health spending—domestic and external—increased in most low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) (136 countries), as governments sought to mitigate the devastating impacts of the pandemic on health and the economy. Development...
COVID-19 led to a rise of health expenditures to curb the pandemic and prevent the population from catastrophic health expenditures. Due to better control of COVID-19 pandemic, Indonesia’s health spending decreased by 19.6 percent compared to last year. A majority of...
The Seguro Integral de Salud (SIS) was established in 2002 and is Peru's main effort to expand health coverage. The SIS seeks to reduce economic barriers by eliminating user fees for a package of care. Although its budget has remained low, the SIS has played an...
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...
