DOCUMENT | 12 Apr 2022
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DOCUMENT | 12 Apr 2022
P4H Webinar on CIS #1 – Summary English (16 March, 2022)
DOCUMENT | 11 Apr 2022
Transition to program budgeting in Uganda: status of the reform and preliminary lessons for health
Uganda
To make sustainable progress towards universal health coverage (UHC), public health financing is very critical. Uganda has taken major budgetary reforms to optimize budget planning, transparency, and accountability since the early 2000s. The two major reforms over...
NEWS | 11 Apr 2022
Training workshop on strategic purchasing mechanisms (out put financing) for the CSU
Cameroon
Workshop objectives Enable the various stakeholders in healthcare financing to better understand the operating principles of each strategic purchasing mechanism (out put financing), its strengths, weaknesses and opportunities. Obtain proposals on the practical...
NEWS | 11 Apr 2022
A new document on the transition to Program Based Budgeting and its implication on health has been posted on the Uganda country page
Uganda
The report describes Uganda's transition process to programme-based budget, as a means to better align with public policy priorities and enhance accountability and transparency. It also discusses what the implications are for the health sector. The report...
NEWS | 07 Apr 2022
Webinar Series for Awareness-building on DRG for UHC
TARGET PARTICIPANTS: This e-learning course aims at building up knowledge and learning experiences for participants from countries that want to pursue the universal health coverage policy with payment to acute inpatient care with diagnosis-related group tools. The...
NEWS | 05 Apr 2022
The relationship between health expenditure, CO2 emissions, and economic growth in the BRICS countries
India
In this study, the researchers used Fourier autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) model to study the correlation between health expenditures, CO2 emissions, and GDP fluctuations in BRICS countries from 2000 to 2019. The study presents some interesting findings and...
NEWS | 05 Apr 2022
Healthcare now, pay later: A new way for distress financing in India
India
Chris George explores an innovative health financing model - embedded finance wherein healthcare services can be availed using a credit card with Zero Percent Interest Rate, thereby addressing the challenges of distress financing for health. Read more about it...
NEWS | 28 Mar 2022
Korea enhanced the COVID-19 response and childbirth care
Korea, Republic of
Summary The Central Disaster and Safety Countermeasure Headquarters (CDSCH) in South Korea held a video conference, attended by the central ministries and 17 major local governments, to discuss the weekly risk evaluation and related response measures, fees paid...
NEWS | 25 Mar 2022
Ghana to establish epidemics fund to address financing challenges
Ghana
Discussions to set up a dedicated fund for epidemics took centre stage at a forum in Accra to collate input for the 2022 budget statement and economic policy. Proponents said the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic had made such a fund more relevant, hence the need for...
NEWS | 21 Mar 2022
New payment rate for continuous renal replacement therapy in Thailand
Thailand
The National Health Security Office has increased hospital reimbursement rates for continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT), aiming to increase access to treatment among people with acute kidney injury. Following this payment policy, hospitals providing CRRT to...
DOCUMENT | 18 Mar 2022
Toward Strategic Purchasing: Management of multiple schemes and purchasing decisions by the Cambodian national Security Fund
Cambodia
"This document presents the findings from an assessment of the co-management of different social health insurance schemes by the Cambodian National Social Security Fund, with a focus on the strategic purchasing of health services from public and private health...
NEWS | 17 Mar 2022
Oman government meets COVID 19 healthcare challenge by procuring private sector services
Oman
Oman’s public health sector partnered with private healthcare institutions that helped in lessening the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the country. Private sector participation increased the country’s hospitalization capacity, handled the overflow of patients from...
NEWS | 14 Mar 2022
7,5 million USD is injected to health system in Russia to pay for providers’ virtual consultations during the pandemic
Russian Federation
More than half a billion rubles will be directed to the remuneration of doctors who consult citizens remotely. The government continues to implement an updated plan of measures to counter the spread of coronavirus. 600 million rubles have been allocated from the...
NEWS | 14 Mar 2022
Value-based payment in cancer care is introduced in Russia
Russian Federation
Medical workers will be incentivised by additional payments for early detection of cancer, reportst the Ministry of Health of Russia. According to the order of the Ministry of Health of Russia, the procedure and conditions for incentive payments to health care workers...