Health Insurance Bill presented to Parliament of Zambia last Friday
Health Minister of Zambia Chitalu Chilufya presented The Health Insurance Bill to Parliament. The first reading took place on Friday 8th of December and the bill was deferred to the Committee on Health, Community Development and Social Services. Second and third...
International Forum in Astana: Invest in Healthcare of the Republic of Kazakhstan
Event Time : 30 Nov 2017 8:00 am to 30 Nov 2017 4:00 pmTimezone: UTC+05:00Event is Conference : No
Khmer Times – NSSF opens to small firms
Khmer Times, November 7, 2017: "Firms employing as few as one member of staff have been urged to register with the National Social Security Fund to obtain benefits for their workers. NSSF director Ouk Samvithya last week said companies of all sizes would now be...
The power of a systemic approach towards Universal Health Coverage (UHC) in Nepal
The team of Nepalese leaders participating in the L4UHC programme tackled one of the country’s major health-care bottlenecks: the lack of essential drugs in primary health facilities. The story of this initiative illustrates that advancing toward UHC is not a simple...
MoH informs about the Government’s intention to start implementing SHI starting with coverage of workers in the civil service.
MoH informs about the Government's intention to start implementing SHI starting with coverage of workers in the civil service. This is announced as a way to start implementation of the SHI scheme in the absence of a legislative basis, and in line with the...
Primes maladie : les raisons d’une hausse vertigineuse
https://www.letemps.ch/suisse/2017/09/27/primes-maladie-raisons-dune-hausse-vertigineuse
The Costs of Delivering Health Services in Indonesia
The central objective of a recently published study on the cost of health service delivery in Indonesia is to provide a better understanding of the cost of delivering health services across the country. The study is expected to inform policy in a number of...
Implementation of the free maternity services policy and its implications for health system governance in Kenya
To move towards universal health coverage, the government of Kenya introduced free maternity services in all public health facilities in June 2013. User fees are, however, important sources of income for health facilities and their removal has implications for the way...
Health Ministry plans quality competition
Khmer Times, 10 November 2017: The Ministry of Health plans to organise a competition to improve the quality of service at health centres across the country and to encourage people to use state-run health providers. Read more on Khmer Times
How well are we doing? Here is the 2016-2017 Annual review.
Here is the 2016-2017 Annual review of the P4H Network. A good opportunity to check on how we are doing, and perhaps how we could best collaborate to ensure the international UHC agenda gets most traction : this is our commitment…the more the merrier! This annual...
Hot off the press : leading-edge analysis for priority setting….your first gift
Predicting resource needs for implementing health care services and interventions is an extremely powerful tool contributing to priority setting processes and national health strategic plans at the country level, as well as for global level analyses to advocate for...
EU-SPS-OECD mission in Zambia
The EU-SPS-OECD mission, in collaboration with the ILO and supported by the P4H is meeting MoH and key partners to identify analysis required to further inform extension of SHI coverage to workers in the informal economy. The expected outcome of the mission is the...
Tripartite consultative Labour Council (TCLC)
The tripartite constituents convene in three consecutive TCLC meetings to consult on the proposed Social Protection Bill. The Social Protection Bill introduces the establishment of an integrated institutional framework for Social Protection. In line with the National...
Circulation of the draft Health Financing Strategy
The Ministry of Health circulates the Draft Health Financing Strategy for comments.
Social Protection Joint Annual Review took place from 21st to 31st of August 2017
Field trip: 21st to 25th of August JAR workshop: 30th and 31th of August The Joint Annual Review aims at assessing the performance of the Social Protection sector in terms of budget and coverage of the main social protection programmes and make appropriate...