Background The Ministry of Health (MOH) of Kuwait has requested the World Health Organization (WHO) to provide support to strengthening its capacity to use health economics and financing tools and approaches to inform the design, planning, implementation, and...
Henrik Axelson is an independent consultant based in Cairo and originally from Sweden. He is a health economist and health financing practitioner with more than 20 years of experience of providing technical assistance and policy advice to governments of low and...
The Strategy for Population Health Protection until 2030 was approved by Decree No. 414 of the Government of the Republic of Tajikistan on September 30, 2021. This strategy defines direction of reforms in the healthcare system and provides ways for further development...
World Bank reported that the Government of Tajikistan launched the development of an investment plan to boost the health care system, at an event, which was attended by the representatives of the Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Health and Social Protection,...
Authors: Ajay Tandon, Valeria Oliveira Cruz , Aarushi Bhatnagar, Hui Wang, Trina Haque, and Manoj Jhalani Year: 2021 This paper focuses on the economic impact of COVID-19 on health financing in countries of the World Health Organization (WHO) South-East Asia Region....
The total budget of the Ministry of Health and Welfare for 2022 is confirmed at 97.47 trillion won(over US$ 100 Billion), accounting for 16% of the entire government budget. It is an increase of 7.90 trillion won (8.8%) from the 2021 budget (89.57 trillion won). The...
The government of Sierra Leone plans to increase domestic funding to the health sector by US$5.9 million in 2022 as the sector will be experiencing massive cuts in the area of budget support by bilateral partners. For the health sector, the country has increased...
Recognising how important purchasing is in social health insurance, this study critically assesses purchasing arrangements between Nigeria’s national health insurance scheme, health maintenance organisations and healthcare providers. It determines how the arrangements...
Program of state guarantees of free medical care provision to citizens for 2022, including plans for 2023 and 2024 (the Program) establishes a list of types, forms and conditions for the provision of free of charge medical care, according to the list of diseases and...
The performance of public health facilities depends on purchasing arrangements, and mechanisms used to finance their operations. How public healthcare facilities are financed can affect health system goals in several ways. For example, the reliability of sources of...
In Uganda, just like most low and middle-income countries, most of the health spending is at the local government (subnational) level. To achieve universal health coverage, efforts to increase health spending need to consider the efficiency and effectiveness of...
New documents on drivers of outpatient care costs incurred by households and health facility financing in Kenya in the context of devolution have been uploaded to the documents section of the Kenya country page. The documents can be downloaded from...
With the support of the Government of the Republic of Tajikistan, the Ministry of Health and Social Protection and the World Bank organized a round table titled “Health insurance in Tajikistan”. The event was held in capital city Dushanbe on November 1, 2021, as...
