Universal Health Coverage in Haryana: Setting Priorities for Health and Health Systems
January 31, 2015In India, the reach of the public health system is limited; many people avoid seeking formal care because of its high cost or cultural barriers. As a result, they delay seeking care until they are seriously ill, which means higher costs when they see …
Domestic Innovative Financing for Health: Learning From Country Experience
January 13, 2015Advances in health care are extending and improving the quality of life for people around the world, but such advances come with a price tag. While all nations face budgetary constraints for health funding, low- and middle-income countries have the f …
USAID – World Bank Public International Organization (PIO) Grant Funding Analysis
October 31, 2014In an effort to provide evidence for USAID/Bangladesh to enhance its work with the Government of Bangladesh’s (GOB) Health, Population, and Nutrition Sector Development Program (HPNSDP), the HFG Project conducted an analysis of USAID funds flowing
Political Winds Blow a New Life into Senegal’s Mutuelles de Santé
October 30, 2014Senegal has been implementing various forms of health insurance (private, public, and community-based) for decades. Renewed political will has energized the use of community-based health insurance (mutuelles de santé) as a key element in the governme …
Model to Estimate Health Insurance Liability for Treatment of HIV/AIDS in Vietnam (2015-2020): Background, Methods, and Results
September 29, 2014The Sustainable Financing Options Project for HIV/AIDS Prevention and Control for the period 2013-2020 has identified funding HIV/AIDS services through social health insurance (SHI) as one of the key strategies to ensure long term sustainability of H …
Use of Incentives in Health Supply Chains: A Review of Results-Based Financing in Mozambique’s Central Medical Store
September 12, 2014Supply chains are the foundation of any health system. For health supply chains to work—for the right goods to be received and delivered in the right quantities, in good condition, to the right place, at the right time, for the right cost—countless a …
Production and Use of Health Accounts in India: What Can We Learn from the Experience so Far?
June 30, 2014Health systems worldwide are expanding their capacity to improve people’s welfare. Governments and their development partners in low- and middle-income countries are depending on data to inform health financing decisions, monitor health sector perfor …
Improving Data for Decision-Making: Leveraging Data Quality Audits in Haryana, India
May 31, 2014The Government of India has prioritized 184 of the 640 districts in the country for focused maternal and child health interventions under an integrated program called the Reproductive, Maternal, Neonatal, Child and Adolescent Health (RMNCH+A) initiat …
Developing Haiti’s First Health Financing Strategy
May 8, 2014As Haiti continues to rebuild its health system after the devastating 2010 earthquake, the Ministry of Health is addressing the dual challenge of how to mobilize sufficient funds for health care and how to efficiently manage and allocate those resour …
Leveraging Performance-based Incentive Programs to Strengthen Civil Society Monitoring of Health Care Providers
January 30, 2014Performance-based incentive (PBI) programs are burgeoning all over the world, and can be leveraged to strengthen social accountability and overcome key challenges associated with civil society monitoring of health care providers. Community-based
