The World Health Organization (WHO) provided technical support to the Member States to institutionalize health expenditure tracking by (a) producing health account (HA) studies, including disease expenditure, based on the revised System of Health Accounts methodology 2011 (SHA 2011) and (b) informing national health policies. Based on the request from Kosovo[1] authorities, the WHO offices […]
In 2019, Kazakhstan piloted compulsory social health insurance in the Karaganda region, and from January 2020, the new system, comprised of two health benefits packages, has been launched throughout the country. The country expressed interest in a holistic assessment of the effectiveness, efficiency, sustainability and resilience of the health financing in the country and capacity […]
Uzbekistan has embarked on comprehensive and far-reaching reforms of its health system, including in health financing, to meet the objectives of the “Concept on health development of the Republic of Uzbekistan 2019-2023”. WHO supports the Ministry of Health (MOH) and the Government of Uzbekistan in introducing health financing and service delivery reforms underpinned by digitalization. […]
The World Health Organization developed a Primary Healthcare (PHC) definition for tracking and comparing PHC expenditures globally. However, if tracking PHC expenditure is supposed to inform national health policies (e.g., prioritize PHC in government budgets), the PHC definition should be tailored to the national context as key national stakeholders deem it appropriate. Tailoring PHC definition […]
The Health Systems Strengthening Accelerator (Accelerator) is a global initiative funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) through a Cooperative Agreement, with co-funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF). Results for Development (R4D) lead the Accelerator. The Inclusive Development Hub of USAID’s Bureau for Development, Democracy, and Innovation (DDI) has […]
The Global Financing Facility for Women, Children, and Adolescents (GFF) is a multi-stakeholder global partnership housed at the World Bank. The GFF supports 36 low and lower-middle-income countries with catalytic financing and technical assistance to develop and implement prioritized national health plans to scale up access to affordable, quality care for women, children, and adolescents. […]
World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe commissioned Consulting Group Curatio Sarl to work with the WHO Barcelona for Health Systems Financing to assist the countries in the European region in (i) institutionalising the System of Health Accounts (SHA) in their routine information systems and producing health accounts (HA) on a routine base including disease […]
The objective of the project was to continue to support the World Health Organisation (WHO) Barcelona Office in: Providing technical support to the selected countries in the WHO European Region to institutionalize the System of Health Accounts (SHA) in their routine information systems and to produce health accounts (HA) on a routine base including disease […]
The main purpose of this project was to support the WHO Barcelona Office in filling the gaps in data on health expenditure for the Regional report. In particular, the CGC team was expected to track missing data on health spending and improve data quality in three countries of the WHO European Region (Albania, Montenegro and […]
World Health Organisation (WHO) Barcelona Office for Health Systems Strengthening commissioned the CGC team to support selected countries in the production of Health Accounts (HA) based on the System of Health Accounts 2011 (SHA2011) methodology. The assignment included three objectives: Provide technical support in the production of HA production (including disease expenditures) for the latest […]
World Health Organization (WHO) provides technical assistance to Member States to produce and institutionalize the health accounts including disease expenditure consistent with the reviewed system of health accounts methodology (SHA 2011). WHO also publishes high-level health expenditure aggregates on the Global Health Expenditure Database (GHED). Where gaps exist, WHO estimates missing data using macroeconomic series. […]
The objective of this engagement was to provide specialist expertise to Health Financing and Insurance Department, Health Insurance Section of the Supreme Council of Health to produce the System of Health Accounts (SHA) Report for the state of Qatar for 2012. The CGC team carried out the following activities as defined in the service agreement: […]