Starting in 2024, PROPEL Adapt Mali is launching activities to introduce a new mutual health insurance model that will expand access to healthcare for farmers and rural agricultural workers. PROPEL Adapt Mali collaborates with a wide range of local partners, including...
PROPEL Adapt presentation
PROPEL (Promoting Results and Outcomes through Policy and Economic Levers) Adapt is a cross-sectoral approach to strengthening the enabling environment in fragile contexts through policy, funding, government accountability and evidence-based advocacy.Complex...
Webinar- Equity in health for all: Advancing social health protection for persons with disabilities
Join us on Thursday, 27 June 2024 for a webinar, discussing findings from ILO-CONNECT research in Cambodia, Lao PDR, and Viet Nam, featuring insights from persons with disabilities and recommendations for inclusive social health protection. In a concerted effort to...
Catastrophic health expenditure and health-related quality of life among older adults in Shandong, China: the moderation effect of daily care by adult children
This study aims to examine the relationship between catastrophic health expenditure and health-related quality of life in older people, and to explore whether the daily care provided by adult children is a moderator in this relationship in in Shandong Province, China....
Fighting malaria: treatment now free of charge in Côte d’Ivoire
The coordinating director of the National Malaria Control Program (PNLP) announced on April 23, 2024 that malaria treatment in Côte d’Ivoire is now free for all ages in public health centers nationwide."The treatment of uncomplicated malaria is free for all ages, and...
The association of a disability-targeted cash transfer programme with disability status and healthcare access in China
In 2015, the Chinese Government launched a cash transfer for the disabled in difficulties and caring for people with severe disabilities. This study investigates the association between China's disability-targeted cash transfer programme and disability status, as well...
Brazil: Conditional cash transfers for health treatment affect low-income families
The results of the analysis of the impact of Brazil's Bolsa Familia conditional cash transfer program on the health of non-beneficiary households living in poverty are presented.It analyzes whether the health requirements of the Bolsa Familia BF program lead to a...
Equity in out-of-pocket health spending: Evidence from Mexico’s Health Insurance Program
The long-term effects of the health insurance program called Seguro Popular, now eliminated and replaced by the Instituto de Salud para el Bienestar (INSABI) on the equity of out-of-pocket spending in the Mexican poor population are analyzed. It highlights that the...
Supportive care, the cornerstone of the end-of-life bill
Following the submission of the report by the Citizens' Convention on the End of Life, the French President announced the creation of a ten-year palliative care strategy and a bill on the end of life. The latter should include the possibility of administering a lethal...
Supplementary health insurance: the CNLE gives its opinion
In accordance with the law, the French government asked the CNLE (Conseil national des politiques de lutte contre la pauvreté et l'exclusion sociale) to issue an opinion appended to the annual report on supplementary health insurance. This year, the Board welcomes the...
CNLE opinion on complementary health insurance
Every year, the Social Security Department (DSS) produces a report on complementary health insurance (C2S). In accordance with the law, the National Council for Policies to Combat Poverty and Social Exclusion (CNLE) is asked by the Government to issue an opinion on...
Ten-year palliative care strategy
Following the submission of the report by the Citizens' Convention on the End of Life in April 2023, the President of the Republic announced the creation of a ten-year palliative care strategy and a bill on the end of life. The expert report, published after six...
Cambodia: Guidelines for the Benefit Package and Provider Payment of the Health Equity Fund
Health equity fund (HEF) is a social health protection scheme aimed at enabling access to essential health care among the poor for free of charge in public health facilities in Cambodia. The guidelines describe the standard benefit packages and provider payments for...
Economic update: Resilience in uncertain times in Niger
After a slowdown in growth linked to COVID-19 in 2020, Niger's economic recovery was hit by a series of climatic and security shocks in 2021 that deteriorated many economic and social indicators.Unlike most countries in the region, Niger showed a certain resilience in...
Health financing for women and children amid climate change
The article published in BMJ Global Health explores the risks climate change poses to women children and adolescents, particularly in the most affected regions, and suggests ways to bridge health and climate finance to protect these groups. Women, children, and...