Towards Universal Health Coverage in Ethiopia’s ‘developmental state’? The political drivers of health insurance
This paper employs a process tracing methodology to examine the political drivers of the adoption and evolution of state health insurance based on 28 key informant interviews conducted between 2015 and 2018 with politicians, policymakers and donor officials. The...
UN Socio-economic Assessment of COVID-19 in Ethiopia
The COVID-19 pandemic poses clear threats to Ethiopia’s reforms and relatively strong economic growth, with “wide-ranging and serious” according to a UN report. The report assesses the devastating social and economic dimensions of the COVID-19 crisis and sets out the...
Cost of Implementing Minimum Service Standards for Health in Indonesia
Indonesia has increased health insurance coverage to 83 % of the total population. Due to the rise of noncommunicable disease (NCD) prevalence, public health spending may need to shift the focus to primary health care. Indonesia has released several iterations of its...
COVID-19, poverty, and social safety net response in Zambia
What has the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic been on poverty in Zambia, and how can social protection programs mitigate these effects? This paper estimates the pre-pandemic poverty level in Zambia and then simulates the distributional impact of COVID-19 in the...
Review of health financing, expenditure and service delivery in Zambia
Ensuring adequate access to quality health services, whether preventative or curative, is critical for a country to ensure that its population attain better health outcomes. In this context, universal health coverage (UHC), embedded within sustainable development...
Towards universal health coverage (UHC) in Zambia: impediments and opportunities
The inclusion of UHC in the 2015 sustainable development goals (SDGs) targets (target 3.8) and the national commitments requires that all its member states work towards achieving this agenda. However, there are concerns over its feasibility in low and middle-income...
P4HC+Meeting Minutes 9 June 2021
The main objective of this meeting is to collect feedback from P4HC+ partners on the draft MoU on the coordination between the National Social Protection Council and Development partners, particularly on the Social Health Protection Pillar which will be led by P4HC+...
Hardship financing of out-of-pocket (OOP) payments in the context of free healthcare in Zambia
High levels of out-of-pocket spending have been shown to be one of the biggest health reasons people fall into poverty when accessing care, or choose to forgo care. Globally it is estimated that 100 million people are pushed into poverty every year due to exorbitant...
The second Health Sector Transformation Plan (HSTP-II)
This is the second Health Sector Transformation Plan (HSTP-II) covering the period between Ethiopian fiscal years 2013 and 2017 (July 2020–June 2025). HSTP-II was developed as the first part of a 10-year health sector plan. It was prepared based on an in-depth...
Assessment of Social Health Insurance Scheme in Selected Districts of Nepal
This study by the Nepal Health Research Council (NHRC) aims to assess the performance of social health insurance scheme in terms of patient satisfaction, impact on service utilization, coverage, and financial viability and to document the experience and challenges in...