Romania faces high levels of amenable mortality reflecting, in part, the relatively low utilization rates of high-quality primary health care (PHC), particularly for non-communicable disease (NCD) prevention...
The development objective of Romania Health Program for Results Project is to increase the coverage of primary health care for underserved populations and improve the efficiency of health spending by addressing...
The development objective of the Supporting Egypt’s Universal Health Insurance System Project for Egypt is to: (i) increase the coverage of Egypt’s universal health insurance system (UHIS) in first phase...
The Vietnam Health Insurance Law permits the health insurance fund to pay providers using three different mechanisms. These are case-based payments, fee-for-service (FFS) and capitation. Although FFS is...
This book examines how nine different health systems – United States (U.S.) Medicare, Australia, Thailand, Kyrgyz Republic, Germany, Estonia, Croatia, China (Beijing), and the Russian Federation have transitioned...
The health sector in Tanzania has traditionally been input oriented and financed against a historical budget. Council health management teams were responsible for the implementation of activities at the...
The Ghana Health Insurance Project received a satisfactory rating with a moderate risk to development outcome. Both the Bank and the Borrower received moderately satisfactory performances. Overall, the...
To address the growth in resultant out-of-pocket (OOP) payments and associated problems of financial barriers to access, the government issued several policies aimed at expanding coverage throughout the...
Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) account for the largest share of the overall burden of disease in Indonesia. There are several challenges facing effective implementation of universal health coverage (UHC)...