The World Bank Geneva Office invites you to join others from the Geneva international community to the presentation of the latest report "From Double Shock to Double Recovery – Implications and Options for Health Financing in the Time of COVID-19”. Background: More...
Join ThinkWell, KEMRI Wellcome Trust, and P4H for a special webinar, "Strengthening Kenya’s Free Maternity Policy: Lessons for Universal Health Coverage Reforms" on Tuesday, November 9 at 4:00 PM EAT (8:00 AM EDT/2:00 PM CET) to hear experts discuss new study findings...
This article outlines the government of Kuwait’s response to the health crisis caused by the COVID 19 pandemic and the course of action that it has undertaken to protect the public health of its citizens and residents. The policy report includes an early cost/benefit...
New report outlines the government of Kuwait’s response to the health crisis caused by the COVID 19 pandemic and the course of action that it has undertaken to protect the public health of its citizens and residents. The policy report includes an early cost/benefit...
Kuwait spends an average of 454 Kuwaiti dinar KD (1507 USD) on healthcare per capita, significantly higher than the regional average (World Bank). While the Kuwaiti government continues to be the main provider of health care it also recognizes the expertise that the...
The Kuwait government cut the Ministry of Health’s budget by about 135 million Kuwaiti dinars KD (447 million USD) this year on account of the reduced fiscal space caused by COVID 19. This is a major challenge for the Ministry of Health, especially in light of the...
A new review titled “Can people afford to pay for health care?” was developed by the WHO Barcelona Office for health financing and published in 2021. Authored by Ketevan Goginashvili, Mamuka Nadareishvili and Triin Habicht, this publication is part of a series...
Meeting background: Since 2014 WHO has convened the Montreux Collaborative bi-annual meeting bringing together experts and partners to discuss the critical relationship between fiscal space, public financial management (PFM) and health financing towards advancing...
How to finance healthcare systems in West Africa? The question was at the heart of a virtual round table on financing healthcare systems in West Africa. The organizer, Gilles Yabi, head of the Wathi think tank, , believes that the issue of...
A workshop was held in Yamoussoukro to develop a framework for the National Platform for the Coordination of Health Financing. This platform is intended as a forum for exchange, with the remit of establishing consensus on healthcare expenditure targets, ensuring the...
This journal paper discusses how private spending by Israelis on health care is related to the income of individuals and their place of residence, and the inequity in access to care that ensues. It also analyses the progressivity of public financing in Israel which is...
In Indonesia, the National Economic Recovery (PEN) program for social protection cluster spent Rp117.3 trillion or 62.9 percent of the budget ceiling as of October 1, 2021. In response to the COVID pandemic, Rp104.1 trillion has been allocated for the public health...
Jordan hosts more than 650,000 registered Syrian refugees and shares the cost of healthcare that is made available to them through the country’s public health services. To address the financial strain that this causes to the government’s exchequer, the latter...
