The International Symposium, convened by the ILO, UNICEF, the Global Coalition for Social Protection Floors and the European Union, takes place in 27-28 June 2023 (13:30 – 17:30 CEST) Geneva, Switzerland and online.REGISTRATION AND AGENDA The Symposium brings together...
India’s G20 Presidency: Institutions, fiscal space and social health protection
A policy brief published by the Observer Research Foundation on India's G20 presidency and and it's implications for social health protection and fiscal space in the G20 countries. Overview Ensuring and managing the fiscal space is necessary for sustained government...
Health Financing in a Time of Global Shocks: Strong Advance, Early Retreat
This latest paper of the World Bank's Double Shock, Double Recovery series, Health Financing in a Time of Global Shocks, is a first attempt to comprehensively gauge how government health spending has fared in developing countries over the past three years – a period...
Mozambique National Health Accounts 2015
This report provides a summary of Mozambique's 2015 Health Accounts exercise, which aimed to measure and track total health spending for the country's residents. The Health Accounts captured valuable information regarding the source of funds, type of provider, goods,...
Use of incentives in health supply chains: a review of results based financing in Mozambique’s central medical store
This qualitative review was conducted in March 2013 to evaluate the impact of introducing results-based financing aiming to improve health supply chain performance at Central Medical Store-Central de Medicamentos e Artigos Medicos (CMAM). The intervention linked the...
The Estonian Health Insurance Fund changed its name from “sick” fund to “health” fund
The change of the Estonian name of the Health Insurance Fund from Haigekassa to Tervisekassa is a necessary change of direction in our health care, says Rain Laane, Head of the Health Insurance Fund. In recent years, the Health Insurance Fund has funneled more and...
The Use of Evidence-Informed Deliberative Processes for Health Benefit Package Design in Kazakhstan
Authors Wija Oortwijn 1 , Gavin Surgey 1 , Tanja Novakovic 2 , Rob Baltussen 1 , Lyazzat Kosherbayeva 3 published an open access article titled “The Use of Evidence-Informed Deliberative Processes for Health Benefit Package Design in Kazakhstan” in the...
Latvian Minister of Health says new budget does not meet previously outlined public health priorities
The present state budget project for 2023 does not meet the funding amounts outlined for public health priorities listed last year, admits Latvian Minister of Health Līga Meņģelsone. She stressed that funding of the healthcare system and development is the...
Public financing for health in times of COVID-19 in the Asia-Pacific Region
A discussion paper published by World Bank in collaboration with the Joint Learning Network, It is part of a series produced by the Health, Nutrition, and Population (HNP) Global Practice of the World Bank. The papers in this series aim to provide a vehicle for...
DRC-Gratuity: A step towards health coverage
Free childbirth in Kinshasa is a laudable initiative, as it would promote maternal health, equity and reduce maternal and newborn mortality rates. Is this a step towards the CSU? Patrick Ndjadi Ombombo, an expert in healthcare coverage, asks.For the Health Rights...
The National Health Insurance Fund in Kenya refine strategy to extend coverage to informal workers
The National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF) staff attended a week long management retreat (20-24 March) organised by the Social Protection and Public Finance Management Program to discuss the NHIF institutional strategy with a focus on extending coverage to informal...
Сенегал-CMU: на примере региона Тамбакунда
Senegal-CMU: The Tambacounda region as an example
During a tour of the Tambacounda region on April 30, Aly Fall, technical advisor in charge of media and public relations at the Agence nationale de la couverture maladie universelle (ANCMU), highlighted the strong momentum of universal health coverage (CMU) in the...
Mali-RAMU : L’association des médecins libéraux opte pour une prescription rationnelle
L'association des médecins libéraux du Mali a organisé le 18 mars 2023 à Bamako, une journée scientifique sur "Droits et devoirs des médecins libéraux, pour la prescription rationnelle dans le cadre du RAMU". La cérémonie d'ouverture a été présidée par la ministre de...
Social protection expenditure in Pacific Island Countries and Timor-Leste
This paper by Partnerships for Social Protection (P4SP) seeks to support analysis of social protection financing by providing an overview of the size, composition, and historical evolution of social protection expenditure in Pacific Island Countries and...