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Practice Brief: Implementing Pro-Poor Universal Health Coverage – Lessons from Country Experience

Journal Publications, Universal Health Coverage

Resource Type: Brief Authors: Gavin Yamey and David Evans Published: November 2015 Resource Description: Universal health coverage (UHC)—ensuring that everyone has access to quality, affordable health services when needed—can be a vehicle for improved equity, health, financial well-being, and economic development. In its 2013 report, Global Health 2035, the Commission on Investing in Health made the case that pro-poor pathways towards UHC, which target the poor […]

Policy Brief: What Steps Are Countries Taking To Implement Pro-Poor Universal Health Coverage?

Journal Publications, Universal Health Coverage

Resource Type: Brief Authors: Alix Beith, Naomi Beyeler, and David Evans Published: November 2015 Resource Description: Universal health coverage (UHC)—ensuring that everyone has access to quality, affordable health services when needed—can be a vehicle for improved equity, health, financial well-being, and economic development. In its 2013 report, Global Health 2035: A World Converging within a Generation, the Commission on Investing in Health made the case […]

Rapid Analytical Review and Assessment of Health System Opportunities and Gaps in Indonesia

Health Systems Assessments, Health Systems Research, Publications

In January 2014, Indonesia launched an ambitious national health insurance program (Jaminan Kesehatan Nasional, or JKN for short), the cornerstone of its commitment to achieve universal health coverage (UHC) by 2019. Against this background of rapid and transformational change, USAID is collaborating with the Government of Indonesia to promote sustainable financing for service delivery, health […]

Additional Domestic Resources to Scale-up the HIV and TB Response in South Africa

Health Finance, HIV/AIDS, Publications, Resource Mobilization

Resource Type: Success Story Authors: Health Finance & Governance Project Published: 12/1/2015 Resource Description: To tackle its substantial HIV and tuberculosis (TB) burdens, South Africa continues to rapidly scale up its response to both diseases. Over the past decade, the government of South Africa (GoSA) dramatically increased its financing for HIV and TB programs. Rapid scale-up requires […]

The Economic Impact of Malaria Control: Moving the Agenda Forward – Report from a Consultative Meeting

Malaria and Other Vector-borne Disease, Publications, Vector-borne Diseases

In the course of implementing a health financing and economic research agenda for the President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI), the Health Finance and Governance Project (HFG) together with PMI identified the absence of an entity with the responsibility of establishing an organizing framework for malaria economic research. Many organizations and universities are undertaking this research, but […]

Mobile Money for Health Case Study Compendium

Digital Finance, Publications, Universal Health Coverage, Where We Work

Despite the recent proliferation of mobile phone usage and uptake of mobile money in developing markets, use in the health sector remains limited and, often, has not been brought to scale. This compendium seeks to expand the knowledge base on mobile money in the health sector by drawing out trends from existing programs and examining […]

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