Tag Archives: UHC

Community Health Financing as a Pathway to Universal Health Coverage: Synthesis of Evidence from Ghana, Senegal, and Ethiopia

Health Insurance (CBHI, SHI), Publications, Universal Health Coverage

Resource Type: Brief Authors: Hailu Zelelew Published: June 2015 Resource Description: In about half of all countries in sub-Saharan Africa, 40 percent or more of the total health expenditure (THE) comes from household out-of-pocket payments. In fact, out-of-pocket health expenditure was less than 20 percent of THE in 2012 in only 10 of 47 countries (Sambo et al., 2013). Against this […]

Ethiopia’s Community-based Health Insurance: A Step on the Road to Universal Health Coverage

Health Insurance (CBHI, SHI), Home Page Map, Publications, Universal Health Coverage

In the last 10 years, Africa has witnessed a renewed interest in Community-based Health Insurance (CBHI) schemes as countries leverage communities to expand risk-pooling coverage to informal sectors and the rural population. CBHI schemes, also known as mutual health organizations, are not-for-profit mechanisms of health financing grounded in principles of solidarity and risk sharing.

Universal Health Coverage in Haryana: Setting Priorities for Health and Health Systems

Health Finance, Publications, Universal Health Coverage

In 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 seek care, high morbidity, and sometimes mortality that would have been preventable […]

Political Winds Blow a New Life into Senegal’s Mutuelles de Santé

Health Finance, Health Insurance (CBHI, SHI), Publications, Universal Health Coverage

Senegal 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 government’s push for Universal Health Coverage (UHC) by 2022. While this government support is laudable, financial, technical, and organizational challenges […]

Monitoring and Evaluating Progress towards Universal Health Coverage in Ethiopia

Journal Publications, Universal Health Coverage

Resource Type: Journal Article Authors: Abebe Alebachew, Laurel Hatt, Matthew Kukla Published: September 2014 Resource Description: PLOS Medicine’s newly released Monitoring Universal Health Coverage Collection features an HFG country case study on the availability of globally proposed universal health coverage (UHC) indicators in Ethiopia. The study, “Monitoring and Evaluating Progress Towards Universal Health Coverage in Ethiopia,” explored 61 proposed indicators and […]

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 […]

Measuring Progress toward UHC in Africa

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Universal health coverage (UHC) – a health system where everyone has access to the health services they need and can take advantage of them without risk of financial impoverishment – is seen as a critical component of sustainable development for low- and middle-income countries. To progress towards UHC goals, however, policymakers must first be able […]

Saint Lucia: Health Service Delivery Costing and Other Economic Analyses

Health Finance, Publications

The Government of Saint Lucia has been considering a national health financing mechanism since the early 2000s. After initial work by a task force in 2002, this mechanism has become known as the Universal Health Care (UHC) plan. The UHC plan as currently envisioned would identify sources of additional revenue for expanding health services coverage […]

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