The Nazarbayev University School of Medicine for two days turned into a dialogue platform for 30 Kazakhstani and foreign experts in the field of economics and healthcare. The main topic for discussion was health financing reforms to ensure universal health coverage....
The overall objective of this study was to assess the purchasing function of the healthcare system in Burkina Faso. Specifically, this involved : analyze current institutional arrangements and organizational practices related to the purchasing function in Burkina...
The Comorian authorities adopted the final version of the Growth and Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (DSCRP) in 2009 to cover the period 2010-2014. The implementation of the DSCRP has enabled the government to make progress in strengthening democracy, peace and...
Why another SPARKS meeting SPARKS aims to establish global, interdisciplinary research network that will facilitate action-oriented research on the public health impact of social protection, with a main focus on low- and middle-income countries. SPARKS facilitates...
AN ANALYSIS OF THE FINANCING SYSTEM HEALTH IN MADAGASCAR: AT A GLANCE The government of Madagascar is committed to making progress towards universal health coverage (UHC), notably by piloting a new health financing mechanism to pool various sources of...
“Health for All – Universal Health Coverage: Everyone Everywhere”
A presentation by ILO at the P4HC+ Meeting on 6 March 2018
The Global Financing Facility (GFF) Country Workshop was organized in Accra, Ghana from 28 January to 1 February 2018. The GFF Country Workshop brought together 10 new GFF-supported countries1 to engage and energize their multisectoral country teams around a common...
To celebrate World Health Day, the Ministry of Health of Cambodia along with partners WHO, JICA and Germany are convening a Cambodia Universal Health Coverage Forum today and tomorrow, 5-6 April, reflecting this year’s World Health Day theme: Health for All –...
Health promotion is receiving more attention in Mongolia. A survey is undertaken to examine health promotion in terms of health-related information, education, counseling, screening, and preventive and medical checkups. There are several factors that limit the...
This paper is the second paper that reviews social health insurance development in Mongolia during 2005-2015. The first paper from 2005 reviewed mandatory health insurance development during 1994-2004. During these years, health insurance brought many new features for...
The aim of this study was to analyze the incidence of catastrophic health expenditures and to measure the rate of impoverishment from health care payments under the social health insurance scheme in Mongolia. Data from the 2012 Household Socio-Economic Survey was...
Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) pose a formidable health and development challenge for low-and middle-income countries. However, translating this challenge into resource allocation is seriously constrained by a lack of country specific evidence on NCD financing and...
