Examining health facility financing in Kenya in the context of devolution
The performance of public health facilities depends on purchasing arrangements, and mechanisms used to finance their operations. How public healthcare facilities are financed can affect health system goals in several ways. For example, the reliability of sources of...
Drivers of outpatient care costs incurred by Kenyan households
An estimated 1.48 million people in Kenya are pushed into poverty every year because of out-of-pocket (OOP) and outpatient health expenses. Kenyans from poor households are the most vulnerable and experience economic hardship each time an OOP payment is necessary....
The progress in addressing financial risk in Uganda; Analysis of catastrophe and impoverishment due to health payments
In this study, the researchers monitor the progress that Uganda has made in ensuring financial risk protection to attain universal health coverage (UHC) as a signatory to the sustainable development goals. Monitoring progress towards UHC requires tracking of progress...
Equity of local government health financing in Uganda
In Uganda, just like most low and middle-income countries, most of the health spending is at the local government (subnational) level. To achieve universal health coverage, efforts to increase health spending need to consider the efficiency and effectiveness of...
Health coverage and financial protection in Uganda: A political economy perspective
In this article, the researchers analyse the Ugandan experience of health financing reforms with a specific focus on financial protection. After almost 20 years of abolishing user-fees to improve accessibility to health services for the population, the incidence of...
Monitoring progress on universal health coverage and the health-related Sustainable Development Goals in the WHO South-East Asia Region: 2021 update
A report from WHO examines the progress towards Universal Health Coverage (UHC) via selected Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) indicators in the WHO SEARO region. The report illustrates the past trends and the future projections as well as equity issues in the UHC...
Health financing for the COVID-19 response: Process guide for national budgetary dialogue
Overview This Process Guide lays out a sequenced set of analytics and actions to support reorienting budgetary arrangements to facilitate the ability of national governments to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic by delivering therapeutics, diagnostics, and vaccine...
Joint external evaluation of IHR core capacities of the Kingdom of Cambodia
"This report is the product of a joint external evaluation (JEE) of the Kingdom of Cambodia’s capacity to prevent, detect and rapidly respond to public health threats of a natural, deliberate or accidental nature. The assessment used the World Health Organization...
Health financing for Universal Health Coverage (UHC) in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA): a systematic review
The world health organisation defines UHC as everyone having access to required health services of high quality without suffering financial hardship. UHC is embedded within the 3.8 target of sustainable development goals. To attain the UHC goal, there is need for...
Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) and the Abuja declaration: Honouring the pledge
The 2001 Abuja declaration is a pledge by the African Union member states to allocate at least 15% of their national budgets each year to improving their healthcare systems. However, for the countries in the SADC, fulfilling this pledge has been a challenge. Having...