The report “Global Spending on Health: Weathering the Storm” is based on the newly updated Global Health Expenditure Database (GHED). It is the 4th in a series of annual reports on global health spending that WHO has produced since 2017. The report...
Ten years of the " Free-Performance-Based Financing " policy in Burundi - what lessons can we learn from it ? Blog published on December 13 2020 by Alexandre Nimubona click here to access content
The authors: Dr Anooj Pattnaik (ThinkWell Global, Deputy Director for Learning), Ryan Nugraha (ThinkWell Indonesia), Prof. Hasbullah Thabrany (ThinkWell Indonesia), and Catherine Connor (Program Director at ThinkWell). The spread of COVID-19 around the world has...
The Asia Pacific Observatory on Health Systems and Policies published a report on the Health System Response Monitor (HSRM). It is designed to collect and organize up-to-date information on how countries are responding to the coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19)...
Hélène Barroy, Federica Margini, Joseph Kutzin (Word Health Organization), Nirmala Ravishankar (ThinkWell), Moritz Piatti-Fünfkirchen (World Bank Group), Srinivas Gurazada (PEFA), Chris James (OECD) COVID-19 has been a well-recognized stress test for public financial...
By Inke Mathauer, Fahdi Dkhimi, Matthew Townsend World Health Organization The full report is available here. COVID-19 continues to have a devastating impact on healthcare systems, and countries around the world are reconfiguring the delivery of healthcare services to...
Leveraging the strengths of a mixed purchasing system for COVID-19: a perspective from Indonesia Anooj Pattnaik, Deputy Director for Learning www.ThinkWell.global Prastuti Soewondo, Country Director, ThinkWell Indonesia Nadhila Adani, Analyst, ThinkWell Indonesia...
Health systems around the world are being shaken to their foundations by the COVID-19 pandemic. By shedding light on latent risks or problems of which we were unaware, the crisis represents a major test for our analytical frameworks, the way we have structured our...
Decided by the Government, which has requested support from the United Nations, the World Bank and the European Union, and to be completed in less than 3 months (August-October...
Within the context of universal health coverage, community participation has been identified as instrumental to facilitate access to health services. Social accountability whereby citizens hold providers and policymakers accountable is one popular approach. This...
Many low-and middle-income countries (LMICs), such as Cambodia, have undertaken significant reforms in the last decade to strengthen their health care systems to improve equity and accelerate progress towards Universal Health Coverage (UHC). In this context, health...
The document presents the findings from an assessment of the co-management of different social health insurance (SHI) schemes by the Cambodian National Social Security Fund (NSSF), with a focus on the strategic purchasing of health services from public and private...
The Cambodian National Social Security Fund (NSSF) was established in 2008 based on the provisions of the Social Security Law adopted by the National Assembly in 2002. While the health insurance branch of the fund initially covered mainly benefits for employees in the...
Disclaimer: This study is published by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, which is a WHO Collaborating Centre; it is not a publication of the World Health Organization. The Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit...
The health system measures put into place in Hungary to contain the spread of COVID-19 are: - On 4 April, the government announced a HUF 663 billion (1.4% of GDP) Epidemic Prevention Fund to cover additional health spending, including a 20% wage increase for health...
