Health financing is an important function of the health system and plays a key role in enabling progress towards Universal Health Coverage by improving effective service coverage and ensuring adequate financial protection from impoverishment arising from health...
In 2019, the South African government committed to establishing a National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) Fund to ensure that the most vulnerable are protected from catastrophic expenditures from medical expenses to attain universal health coverage. This NHI Act,...
The study synthesises the empirical research studies and discusses the health need of the elderly population, healthcare utilization and healthcare expenditure. Despite an increasing feminization of India's older population, women's health in later life and the health...
Health financing equity analysis rarely goes below the state level in India. This paper assesses the equity and effectiveness of public spending on health in the state of Odisha. It identifies the weak link between district spending and district need, proxied by...
The paper quantifies the economic burden of illness due to wage loss and medical care spending, as well as differences in them across the socio-economic distribution. The study used data from Village Dynamics in South Asia (VDSA) survey and the Indian Human...
The study data from the health and consumption surveys of National Sample Surveys over 14 years to overcome these limitations and estimated the incidence and intensity of CHE and impoverishment using the capacity-to-pay (CTP) approach. The incidence of CHE for...
This study identifies the factors contributing to unmet healthcare need and investigates the intersectionality of class with caste and gender in determining unmet need. The analysis informs that class inequality is fundamental to having unmet needs with the limited...
This review identified and provided information on the impact of different PFHI schemes on healthcare utilisation, Willingness to Pay and financial risk protection of the beneficiaries. The study suggests that various central and state schemes increased the...
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...
Since the pandemic, the number of India’s philanthropic collaboratives has more than doubled. These collaboratives mobilise funding from foreign and domestic philanthropy, high-net-worth individuals, corporate social responsibility funders, bilateral and multilateral...
Ministry of Health of Uzbekistan, together with UNICEF, agreed to implement a set of projects worth $102.5 million. The Minister of Health of Uzbekistan B. Musaev and the head of the UNICEF country office M. Mammadzade signed the Road Map of activities between MoH and...
Kyrgyzstan is implementing digitalization of the healthcare system to help decrease disparities for the vulnerable and strengthen the health care system. On March 18, 2022, the Ministry of Health of the Kyrgyz Republic held a round table to discuss Digital...
The New Zealand Government has allocated $22 million for the interim Māori Health Authority to begin funding health services for Māori population. The Māori Health Authority is the lead commissioner of health services targeted at Māori and the co-commission for other...
In this study, the authors document the political pathway to the implementation of the NHIS in Ghana as well as the continuous political will supporting the scheme. The political structure as well as advocacy strength play a critical role in setting budgets for...
To get the ball rolling towards CSU, the Government of Cameroon and its partners have drawn up the terms of reference for the project to set up the experimental phase of CSU in 05 regions, starting at 2023. This experimental phase will focus on reproductive,...
