What is going on in Kazakhstan?
Recently, the Minister of the national economy of Kazakhstan Ruslan Dalenov presented the results of socio-economic development since the beginning of 2020. At the end of November, inflation was 7.3%, and the GDP decreased by 2.8%. Inflation, combined with the...
Republic of Korea’s COVID-19 preparedness and Response
World Bank's discussion paper, Nov 2020 devoted to Republic of Korea's COVID-19 preparedness and Response. It emphasizes that post-MERS (Middle East respiratory syndrome) legislative and regulatory reforms enhanced the public health preparedness and response system in...
Global Spending on Health: Weathering the Storm / Public launch event: 9 December 2020 – 15:00 – 16:30 CET
Public launch event - 9th December 2020 - 15:00 – 16:30 CET The report “Global Spending on Health: Weathering the Storm” to be released at this event is based on the newly updated Global Health Expenditure Database (GHED). It is the 4th in a series of...
COVID-19 Health System Response Monitor, Republic of Korea
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)...
MoH and partners finalize the Strategic Plan extension 2020-24
The Ministry of Health, development partners and civil society are finalizing the joint process to review and extend the Strategic Plan, which will cover the period 2020-24. The adaptations will be focused on areas that have experienced relevant advancements, such as...
“Governance in support of Common Goods for Health: Regional and country perspective” – Today webinar 19 November 2020 – 1pm Geneva Time
Over the last few years, global health systems experts have begun to make progress coalescing a shared understanding of the priority actions needed for effective health system governance. In many countries, both rich and poor, COVID-19 has shed light on governance...
“Many calculations closer to monitoring UHC in Cambodia”
The third session of " Stata training for monitoring UHC" was conducted by Causal Design for P4H with the National Institute of Public Health (NIPH) and the General Secretariat to the National Social Protection Council (GS NSPC) to expand on learnings from two...
Latest Iteration of Myanmar Development Assistance Policy
The latest Iteration of Myanmar Development Assistance Policy has been launched in November 2020. The new policy aims to ensure that development assistance is at all times: fully aligned with the Myanmar Sustainable Development Plan 2018-2030, and Sectoral,...
UNICEF and P4H support Covid Impact Study in Tanzania
UNICEF and P4H are jointly supporting a study on Covid-19 impact on youth and adolescents, their families and communities, including impacts on their access to health.
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Mozambique to update costing of health services with OneHealth tool
Mozambique has embarked in the new phase of costing health services with the One Health tool, supported by WHO. The objective is to approximate costs of all programs and cost items of the health system. This is an essential part of planning and budgetary...
Haiti – Country Mapping : Large Scale Cash Transfers for Covid-19 Response (9/2020)
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Lives and livelihoods: a decision framework for social and movement measures during the COVID-19 pandemic
Authors: Edith Patouillard, Andrew Mirelman, Tessa Tan-Torres Edejer, Agnès Soucat Across the world, policy makers are implementing measures to limit the spread of COVID-19, protect the health care system and people’s health. While there is no vaccine...
Universal Health Coverage in the United Kingdom
Click here to download the complete article as a PDF document. 1. Context of Health Coverage in the United KingdomThe UK National Health Service (NHS) was founded in 1948 and remains the dominant system of health coverage today. It is financed primarily...
The Social Protection and Health Action Research and Knowledge Sharing (SPARKS) Network is going to organize a virtual conference on Bridging the SDGs to optimise health-related social protection from 2-3 December 2020.
see Provisional Agenda attached. Link to register Event Time : 02 Dec 2020 1:00 pm to 03 Dec 2020 4:45 pmTimezone: Event is Conference : No