Despite a rebound in economic growth following the pandemic, new geopolitical developments and macroeconomic shocks-inflation and monetary responses to inflation, Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and the...
This paper outlines changes that have been made for the third version of the World Bank’s Health Equity and Financial Protection Indicators (HEFPI) database launched in 2022. Across all indicators, subpopulation...
This health financing system assessment (HFSA) study comes at an opportune time to favor informed policy-making around health financing for universal health coverage (UHC) in Niger. The comprehensive assessment...
This publication provides a second technical update that reflects deteriorating global economic conditions following the Russian Federation’s invasion of Ukraine combined with increasing inflation, and...
Equity has long been considered an important goal in the health sector. Equity in health is even more important to understand and tackle than other forms of inequality. The joint unequal distribution of...
The expanded program for immunization is an important part of primary health care, and its achievements are key for the ongoing national agenda towards universal health coverage (UHC). Understanding the...
Mali is a semi-arid, landlocked, low-income country with high demographic growth. It is in the group of the twenty-five poorest countries in the world. Despite improvement in recent years on key health...
Mali is a semi-arid, landlocked, low-income country with high demographic growth. It is in the group of the twenty-five poorest countries in the world. Despite improvement in recent years on key health...
The most equitable, efficient and effective way to finance Universal Health Coverage (UHC) and other health system objectives is by using public, compulsory, and prepaid domestic funding. As a country’s...
This note provides guidance on how to carry out a 'drill-down' examination of domestic resource mobilization (DRM) for increased health sector fiscal space to ensure progress towards universal health coverage...
Volume 2 updates the analyses presented in the original discussion paper, Volume 1, "From Double Shock to Double Recovery - Implications and Options for Health Financing in the Time of COVID-19," published...
This publication updates the analyses presented in the original discussion paper “From Double Shock to Double Recovery-Implications and Options for Health Financing in the Time of COVID-19,” published...
Volume 2 updates the analyses presented in the original discussion paper, Volume 1, "From Double Shock to Double Recovery - Implications and Options for Health Financing in the Time of COVID-19," published...
Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19’s) impact has gone far beyond its direct effect on morbidity and mortality. In addition to adversely impacting non-COVID health care utilization, the pandemic has resulted in...
This paper outlines changes that have been made in the 2019 version of the Health Equity and Financial Protection Indicators database. On the financial protection side, the changes include an increase...