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Translating Evidence to Policy: It has been done! Learning from the Chilean Health Benefits Plan Development Process

Health Insurance (CBHI, SHI), Presentations

Health Systems’ Global (HSG)’s Translating Evidence into Action Working Group hosted this webinar exploring Chile’s use of evidence in the design of their Universal Access with Explicit Guarantees (AUGE) health benefit plan (HBP) and reflecting on factors that can facilitate and hinder the process of evidence-based design. The focus of the webinar was the use […]

Using Evidence to Design Health Benefit Plans For Stronger Health Systems: Lessons from 25 Countries

Health Finance, Health Insurance (CBHI, SHI), Health Systems Research, Publications

Low- and middle-income country governments face competing health priorities as they try to increase their populations’ access to affordable healthcare with limited resources. Faced with difficult choices, how can governments align their spending with health system objectives? One common policy instrument governments are using is the health benefit plan (HBP), defined here as a pre-determined, […]

Domestic Innovative Financing for Health: Learning From Country Experience

Announcements, Health Finance, Publications, Resource Mobilization

Advances 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 fewest resources for their health sectors. And as many of these nations begin transitioning away […]

System of Health Accounts (2011) and Health Satellite Accounts (2005): Comparison of Approaches

Publications, Resource Tracking (NHA, SHA)

Resource Type: Brief Authors: Sharon Nakhimovsky, Patricia Hernandez-Peña, Cornelius van Mosseveld, Alain Palacios Published: June 2014 Resource Description: Accounting data on economic and financial resource flows within the health system are critical to informing health and economic policy at both national and international levels. For the most part, institutions that produce accounting data in the health system recognize the advantages of creating […]

Measuring And Monitoring Progress Toward Universal Health Coverage: A Case Study in Côte d’Ivoire

Publications, Universal Health Coverage

Resource Type: Case Study Authors: Anne Juillet, Clovis Konan, Laurel Hatt, Sophie Faye, and Sharon Nakhimovsky Published: 05/2014 Resource Description: Developing simple and sound measures to monitor progress toward universal health coverage (UHC) is critical if this objective is to remain high on the global agenda and receive priority attention from country policymakers. While discussions on UHC […]

Universal Health Coverage Measurement in a Lower-Middle-Income Context: A Senegalese Case Study

Publications, Universal Health Coverage

Resource Type: Case Study Authors: Justin Tine, Sophie Faye, Sharon Nakhimovsky, and Laurel Hatt Published: 04/2014 Resource Description: To advance the global discussion on the availability, feasibility, and relevance of various candidate indicators for UHC measurement, the Health Finance and Governance project, funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development, conducted a case study in Senegal. The objective […]

Universal Health Coverage Measurement in a Low–Income Context: An Ethiopian Case Study

Publications, Universal Health Coverage

Resource Type: Case Study Authors: Abebe Alebachew, Laurel Hatt, Matt Kukla, and Sharon Nakhimovsky Published: 04/2014 Resource Description: Universal health coverage (UHC) as a goal of health policy has gained wide acceptance at country and global levels since the publication of the World Health Report 2010 and is seen as a critical component of sustainable development. […]

Saint Kitts and Nevis 2011 National Health Accounts and HIV Subaccounts

Publications, Resource Tracking (NHA, SHA)

Resource Type: Report Authors: Sharon Nakhimovsky, Roxanne Brizan-St. Martin, Heather Cogswell, Darwin Young, Karl Theodore, Althea LaFoucade, Christine Laptiste, Don Bethelmie, Roger McLean, Stanley Lalta, and Laurel Hatt Published: 10/2013 Resource Description:  Economic growth in St. Kitts and Nevis, a federation with a population of approximately 50,000, was strong over the past decade, averaging more than 3.5 […]

An Analysis of Spending on Prevention and Public Health in Africa

Health Systems Research, Publications, Resource Tracking (NHA, SHA)

Resource Type: Report Authors:  Avril Kaplan, Sharon Nakhimovsky, Andrew Won, and Carlos Avila Published: 08/25/2013 Resource Description:  In an effort to examine government and donor spending on health promotion and disease prevention compared to other health sector areas, an HFG report, An Analysis of Spending on Prevention and Public Health in Africa, used National Health Accounts […]

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