Malaysia budget 2022 prioritizes to support the low-income households and businesses affected by COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic negatively affects Malaysia’s economy and household income, especially lower income families. To minimize the impact of economic recession and alleviate the poverty from the pandemic, Malaysia approved budget for 2022 with priorities to support...
Strengthening health system is the top priority in Maldives
Expansion of health coverage to ensure greater access to high quality of healthcare services is one of the key features of health system strengthening aimed at universal health coverage in Maldives. Maldives government plans to strengthen the health system by...
Singapore will open a long-term disability program for people born in 1979 or earlier
Long-term care is needed for dependent older persons. However, the cost of long-term care and duration of disability are unpredictable. Thus, a new long-term disability program so called “CareShield Life” has been introduced to provide a basic lifetime financial...
Thailand drafted a new regulation to prevent additional charges
The Universal Coverage Scheme (UCS) in Thailand is one of the key pillars that contributes to universal health coverage ensuring all people access to essential health services without financial hardship. Since 2003, 31 relevant regulations were implemented under the...
Namibia reviews the performance of the health sector including financing for health
The Ministry of Health and Social Services in Namibia has commenced a multi-stakeholder Health Sector Review for the period 2009 to 2021 with the overall objective to assess progress in attainment of targets, implementation of strategies and document contextual...
New documents on Bhutan National Health Accounts (2018-2020)
National Health Accounts (NHA) provide the information about the flow of resources and funds of the country’s health system. NHA illustrates national health spending of the country from public and private sector, including household spending. Thus, NHA is useful for...
New documents on national health insurance scheme (NHIS) in Ghana have been added to the document section
Four documents on Ghana's NHIS have been recently uploaded to the documents section of the Ghana country page. The documents can be downloaded from the related documents below.
WHO and the EU supplied modern X-ray equipment to hospitals in Armenia
According to news on WHO Armenia country page, with financial support from the European Union, WHO supplied X-ray equipment to seven hospitals for COVID-19 treatment in capital city Yerevan and in six other cities in Armenia. New X-ray machines will help control...
Azerbaijan strengthens health workforce to develop national primary health care
According to WHO country page for Azerbaijan, a new pilot project demonstrated that when primary health care prioritizes the training of health workers and the empowerment of local communities to take charge of their health, the national health system can become...
Timor-Leste shared COVID-19 experiences on public finance
In Timor-Leste, Minister of Finance, Rui Gomes, participated in the high-level meeting of Portuguese-Speaking Countries in Africa – East Timor (PALOP-TL) on public finance “Transform the State”. The two high-level personalities were invited to participate, the former...
Japan plans to increase wage for care workers and nurses
Japan plans to increase wage for care workers, nursery school staffs, and nurses under the new stimulus package. The expected total budget for the stimulus package is greater than 30 trillion yen, aiming to alleviate the impact of COVID-19 through boosting economic...
Regional Conference on Extending Social Health Protection in the Asia Pacific Region towards Universal Health Coverage
Background: Over the past decades, many countries in Asia and the Pacific have rapidly expanded social health protection coverage. Despite laudable progress, the effective realization of the human rights to health and social security is not yet a reality for all....
Turkey provides COVID 19 treatment and medicine free of charge
Coronavirus treatment and medicine for patients in public hospitals in Turkey has been made free of charge following a presidential decree. It says that all patients, even if they failed to pay state insurance, will be granted protective gear and testing, as...
Turkey’s Health spending reaches over $35.4B in 2019
Turkey's health expenditure posted a year-on-year rise of 21.7% to reach 201.3 billion Turkish liras ($35.44 billion) in 2019. Health expenditure per capita reached 2,434 Turkish liras ($428.5) with an increase of 19.9% while out of pocket health expenditures...
Presenting documents on Turkey’s health system, social health protection laws, programs and more
We have the pleasure of presenting 5 (five) new documents on Turkish health financing and social health protection in this space. Two research papers examine Turkey’s Health Transformation Program that was introduced (2003) to improve social health protection and...