Health financing is an important function of the health system and plays a key role in enabling progress towards Universal Health Coverage by improving effective service coverage and ensuring adequate financial protection from impoverishment arising from health...
In 2019, the South African government committed to establishing a National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) Fund to ensure that the most vulnerable are protected from catastrophic expenditures from medical expenses to attain universal health coverage. This NHI Act,...
In this study, the authors document the political pathway to the implementation of the NHIS in Ghana as well as the continuous political will supporting the scheme. The political structure as well as advocacy strength play a critical role in setting budgets for...
Discussions to set up a dedicated fund for epidemics took centre stage at a forum in Accra to collate input for the 2022 budget statement and economic policy. Proponents said the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic had made such a fund more relevant, hence the need for...
An article discussing the importance of political will in the implementation of a national health insurance has been uploaded to the Ghana country page. The full article can be accessed using the link below.
According to a Briefing by the European Parliamentary Research Service, EU-funded National Recovery and Resilience Plan of Latvia is to allocate 10% of the grant to health. The briefing reports that Latvia's National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP) sets...
Dental care is a demanded type of care within the national healthcare. The Social Health Insurance Fund reported that the volume of dental services provided under mandatory health insurance system in 2021 increased by 50%. As part of covered...
To strengthen the healthcare system of Zanzibar, the government of Zanzibar is in the process of introducing Universal Health Insurance (UHI) that over time can cover the entire population, as the main social health protection and financing scheme in the country. The...
In 2019, the government of South Africa passed the national health insurance (NHI) bill, reviving a debate as to whether social health insurance could be effectively implemented in the country. In this article, the author discusses the development process of the NHI...
Over five million Egyptian citizens have been registered for the country's Universal Health Insurance System in the governorates of the first phase, the cabinet's Information and Decision Support Centre said Saturday. The figures announced are around 85 percent...
A new document has been uploaded on South Africa's country page. The document discusses the development process of the 2019 National Health Insurance (NHI) bill against the backdrop of the country’s political and social context. The document can be...
Three new documents have been uploaded on the across Africa regional page. All three documents focus on assessing the financing mechanisms that have been put in place in the Southern Africa Development Community and sub-Saharan African countries in...
Three new documents on NHIS have recently been uploaded to the documents section of the Nigeria country page. One peer reviewed article examining the purchaser-provider relationship within a conical health insurance scheme which was published in 2018. The other looks...
A new document has been recently uploaded to the documents section of the Sierra Leone country page. The document assesses the determinants of willingness among the people to pay a premium for the social health insurance. The document can be...
