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Guatemala Health System Assessment 2015

Resource Type: Report Authors: Carlos Avila, Rhea Bright, Jose Carlos Gutierrez, Kenneth Hoadley, Coite Manuel, Natalia Romero, and Michael P. Rodriguez Published: 8/2015 Resource Description: Guatemala’s public health system benefits from a well-established regulatory framework, many years of institutional history, dedicated and experienced health sector workers, and an absence of dependence on external sources for financial support. […]

Essential Packages of Health Services: A Landscape Analysis in 24 EPCMD Countries

In an effort to better understand what the EPHS are and what they are being used for in the EPCMD countries, USAID requested that HFG conduct an analysis to provide a “snapshot” for each of the priority countries. The activity results enable quick identification of the EPHS for the studied countries, allowing practitioners to identify […]

Manuel de Procedures Administrative, Financiere et Comptable des Unions ou Mutuelles Communales de Sante au Benin

Depuis 1995, se développent au Bénin des mutuelles de santé en réponse aux difficultés d’accès des populations aux soins de santé dues à l’instauration, dans le système, du paiement direct des soins. Ces mutuelles de santé qui fonctionnent sur la base de la solidarité sont portées, pour la plupart, par des bénévoles élus parmi les […]

Working with System of Health Accounts, 2011: Orientation, Discussion, and Next Steps

India conducted two National Health Accounts (NHA) exercises on data from 2001/02 and 2004/05. However, most health budgeting and spending in India is done by state-level government, which is why it was necessary to create state-level health accounts. The HFG project in India hosted a three-day (May 18-20, 2015) orientation on estimating HA using the […]

Championing Sustainability, Namibia Funds Health Accounts

Resource Type: Success Story Authors: Health Finance & Governance Project Published: 8/1/2015 Resource Description: In Namibia, donor funding for health dropped by 47 percent between 2009 and 2013. This sharp decline could have broad implications for the health sector—particularly Namibia’s HIV and AIDS response which relies heavily on donor resources. In light of declining donor resources for health, […]

A Nepali mother with two young boys and their grandfather.

Essential Health Services Country Snapshot Series

A new series of country profiles analyzes the governance dimensions of Essential Packages of Health Services (EPHS) in the 24 Ending Preventable Child and Maternal Deaths (EPCMD) priority countries. An EPHS can be defined as the package of services that the government is providing or is aspiring to provide to its citizens in an equitable […]

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