The health financing system in Afghanistan remains fragile due to high out-of-pocket spending and reliance on donor funding. Households’ out-of-pocket expenditures or direct payments for health services account for 73% of total health expenditure with 75% of the...
This study assessed the utilization of health care and associated factors amongst the federal civil servants using the NHIS in Rivers state, Nigeria. It is a descriptive cross-sectional study using self-administered questionnaires. Findings show that out of a total of...
Health insurance is an important mechanism to improve access to healthcare and prevent financial hardship and attain universal health coverage. Although it has been over almost two decades since the launch of the NHIS, only 5% of Nigerians have health insurance and...
The government of Gambia envisioned providing quality and affordable health services for all by 2020. This national health policy provided a clear direction to all relevant stakeholders in the health sector for implementation of interventions in the sector to improve...
This study examines how satisfied the Saudi people are with their public sector healthcare services and assesses their willingness to contribute to financing the system through a national health insurance scheme. The sustainability of the public sector healthcare...
The Government of Namibia provides a significant proportion of funding to subsidize the PSEMAS for public servants. As part of efforts to ensure value for money, the Government is pursuing reforms to the scheme. A technical committee was set up early in 2021 to...
An article providing a summary on reforming the public service medical aid scheme (PSEMAS) in Namibia has been posted in the document section. The link can be found below.
In 2013, the Kingdom of Qatar introduced a national health insurance scheme called ‘Seha’. It is regulated by the Supreme Council of Health (SCH) through the country’s National Health Insurance Company. This paper outlines the SHC’s health insurance pricing approach...
This journal article gives insight into Lebanon’s healthcare response to the COVID 19 pandemic with limited financial resources and an increasingly private and urban health sector. It suggests that 80% of the health care budget in Lebanon is spent on acute care in...
New documents include a paper on health sector reforms that lays out the measures taken by Lebanon’s Ministry of Public Health to increase the country’s access to health services since the end of the civil war in 1992. Another publication reviews the health budget and...
Ghana introduced the NHIS in 2003 to reduce out-of-pocket payments for health care. Over a decade of its implementation, challenges about the financial sustainability of this pro-poor policy remain despite its critical role in attaining UHC. The authors conducted this...
Four documents on Ghana's NHIS have been recently uploaded to the documents section of the Ghana country page. The documents can be downloaded from the related documents below.
In the quest to ensure financial risk protection and equal access to health services and hence achieve universal health coverage, the Gambia government initiated the introduction of the national health insurance scheme (NHIS) in 2020. The minister of health Dr. Ahmad...
In this paper, the author analyses how UHC is being implemented in the health financing system of Tanzania and also how PPPs are contributing towards the attainment of UHC. A cross sectional survey was conducted in the Kilimanjaro region in Tanzania to evaluate the...
The government of Tanzania is committed to attaining UHC by 2030. In this vein, the government has set aside Sh149 billion (about 65 million USD) to implement UHC. The government spokesperson, Mr Gerson Msigwa, said the money would be used to start providing...
