Three new documents have been posted on the document section of the Rwanda page. They include two government documents which are the fourth heath sector strategic plan and the health financing strategy as well as one peer reviewed article on the financial...
The 2017 health financing policy and strategy has been recently uploaded to the documents section of the Nigeria country page. The strategy provides evidence-based guidance to the federal, state and local governments as well as other actors in Nigeria’s health system...
Adequate health financing is essential to manage the burden on the health system. Policy responses on payment for health services by Kyrgyzstan during COVID-19 were reviewed by the European Observatory for Health Systems and Policies. The review of COVID-19 response...
The Health Financing Progress Matrix (HFPM), developed by WHO’s Department of Health Systems Governance & Financing, assesses country health financing systems against a set of evidence-based benchmarks. The WHO developed and released version 2 of the HFPM in late...
This report charts the history of the National Health Insurance Law (NHIL) passed in 1995 that enabled sustainable, high-quality medical care to all eligible Israeli residents. It is based on key takeaways from the 19th annual Dead Sea conference (held by the Israel...
Israel has a long-standing commitment to universal health coverage through government and non-governmental organizations. The country’s National Health Insurance System (NHIS) covers all permanent residents, accounting for 98% of its resident population. Even...
We are pleased to draw your attention to four new reports and journal papers on our Israel country page. Three peer-reviewed papers discuss Israel’s public-private partnership in delivering health care services in the presence of the National Health Insurance Law...
In Thailand, 198.89 billion baht has been approved for National Health Security Fund to operate the Universal Coverage Scheme (UCS) in the 2022 fiscal year, excluding 140.55 billion baht earmarked separately for staff’s payroll. The 2022 budget will be rearranged to...
Tanzania endorses the goal of achieving the sustainable development goals (SDGs) and is committed to attaining universal health coverage (UHC) by 2030. The achievement of UHC as well as other SDGs with an impact on health are central in this HSSP V. The HSSP V will...
The Government of Tanzania has implemented a number of health sector reforms that promote UHC in the last two decades. This case study focuses primarily on the initiatives that foster UHC with a specific pro-poor lens. Tanzania’s efforts that can potentially benefit...
The NHIF amendment bill is part of Government of Kenya plan for achieving UHC. The goal of the UHC program is to provide health care for all based on need-not on ability to pay. One of the proposals in the 2021 NHIF amendment bill stipulates that all Kenyans must be...
Social health insurance is a health financing mechanism that pools the risk of its members, and their financial contributions. The major contributors are the households, enterprises and government. These contributions serve to pay for health services, thereby giving...
Brunei provides 7 interim measures to support private sectors affected by the COVID pandemic, starting from the 1st August 2021 to 31st December 2021 as follows: First: Defer the contributions of the Employees Trust Fund (Tabung Amanah Pekerja:...
As the impact of Covid-19 continues to escalate, accountable public budgets that are aligned to the needs of people living in poverty and vulnerable populations are more crucial than ever. In the 2020/21 fiscal year, Kenya will not only be dealing with the social,...
Considerable efforts aimed at strengthening the health system to ensure delivery of effective, affordable and efficient services at all levels without financial hardship and achieve better health outcomes have been implemented over the years. To advance this goal, the...
