New article published in Lancet: Previous Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) studies have reported national health estimates for Ethiopia. Substantial regional variations in socioeconomic status, population, demography, and access to...
To reduce waiting time and travel cost of health services, the Service with Care and Compassion Initiative (SCCI) adopted from World Health Organization’s PEN-Hearts technical package* has been implemented in Bhutan. SSCI uses a patient centric approach. Dagapela...
The Jordanian National Social Protection Strategy articulates the Government’s commitment to break the intergenerational cycle of poverty and provide a social protection floor in the context of the Kingdom’s vision for a state that has social justice, equity, and...
The Jordan country page has recently added two new strategy papers. A high-level review by USAID’s Health Finance and Governance Activity, of the process in the public health system in Jordan, identify key areas such as benefits package design and mixed provider...
"The purpose of this report was to provide an overview of the Health Equity and Quality Improvement Project (H-EQIP) and to present the baseline findings of the Service Delivery Grants impact evaluation. Hte report also includes a discussion and outlines some policy...
"Using a system-wide approach, this study assesses how benefits from healthcare spending are distributed across socioeconomic groups in Cambodia."
This study explains the healthcare coverage that Egyptian employees receive based on formal employment. The paper details the legislative, institutional and technical aspects relevant to various occupational healthcare (OCH) services in Egypt, emphasizing the central...
Nachiket Mor, the visiting scientist at The Banyan Academy of Leadership in Mental Health, highlights the need to ensure maximum value for the Rupee spent by the consumer. He argues that the Indian government spends 1.25% of GDP on Health, which however insufficient,...
Over the recent decades, Vietnam has attained remarkable achievements in all areas of health care. However, shortcomings including health disparities persist particularly with a rapidly aging population. This has resulted in a shift in the disease burden from...
Research conducted by the National Planning Commission (NPC) with the assistance from the African Institute for Development Policy (AFIDEP) and the Copenhagen consensus centre has revealed that significantly increasing financial investment in the health sector could...
Afghanistan is facing a severe crisis in its healthcare sector as the country remains conflict-affected. To boost life-saving support and keep the healthcare system on its feet, it has recently received UDS 45 million from the United Nations' Central Emergency...
President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev had an official visit to the Swiss Confederation and met with the Director General of the World Health Organization Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus November 29, 2021. During the meeting, the Head of state described measures...
This case study focuses primarily on how Oman used various strategies for improving access to and quality of their primary health care system thus contributing to universal health care. The focus on primary health care as the fundamental tool to advance the health of...
This article provides an assessment of the cost of the public health care sector in Oman. Costs are increasing steadily as the country has a universal health care system continues to expand free primary health care to Omanis and subsidized care for the foreign...
According to WHO country page for Azerbaijan, a new pilot project demonstrated that when primary health care prioritizes the training of health workers and the empowerment of local communities to take charge of their health, the national health system can become...
