The Philippines, a middle-income country in South-East Asia has now had more than 50 years of experience with social health insurance and in 1995 established PhilHealth, the country’s national health insurer. This paper analyzes the environment, achievements and...
Short description Table B.11 of the World Social Protection Report 2014/15 provides data on the multiple dimensions of health coverage including legal health coverage rates, GHE, OOP, MMR as well as coverage gaps due to deficits in financial resources and health...
Short description This tool provides United Nations Country Teams (UNCTs) in Asia and the Pacific region and the United Nations Development Group Asia-Pacific with (i) a common UN position on social (health) protection; (ii) a brief overview of social (health)...
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...
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...
Cette présentation est un poster remarquable (en anglais) présenté à l’occasion du séminaire santé "Agenda 2030: Towards Universal Health Coverage" organisé du 25 au 29 Septembre 2017 à Genève par Bart Callewaert de la délégation de l’Union Européenne au Burkina...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The study explores the possible strategies to expand Social Protection to small scale farmers, domestic workers and construction workers as well as the requirements for SHI scheme design adjustments to fit the income patterns and employment arrangements which prevail...
