The sixth edition of the World Bank Somalia economic update series made several policy recommendations that would set the country up for economic recovery. These include; Investing in health and social safety nets would help improve health outcomes and human capital...
Over 326,000 vulnerable households in Nairobi have been registered for the National Hospital Insurance Insurance Fund (NHIF) by the Nairobi Metropolitan Services (NMS). The NHIF is part of the government’s universal health care policy to ensure that vulnerable...
The Ministry of Health has decided to set up a committee to reflect on and monitor the implementation of the CSU pilot phase. This committee's mission is to propose the documents required to operationalize the CSU's operational phase at the end of 2021. Working group...
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...
