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Reimagining India's health system: a Lancet Citizens’ Commis...
December 2020. The COVID-19 pandemic and response are having profound impacts on India's people, leading to myriad health-care challenges, a looming economic recession, and humanitarian crises. The l...
Video: Excise Taxes on Tobacco, Alcohol, Sugar-Sweetened Bev...
December 2020. At the request of the Minister of Finance of Chile, a joint team from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) reviewe...
Assessing country health financing systems: the health finan...
December 2020. WHO released Guidance Paper #8 outlining the background to, and design of, the Health Financing Progress Matrix (HFPM), WHO’s standardized qualitative approach to assessing country hea...
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5th Annual Health Financing Forum - Part 2: Health Financing...
The full-feature website for the 5th Annual Health Financing Forum Part 2 (November 2020) will be archived in June 2021. Here are the links to the session recordings. Session materials from Part 2 ...
Transition to Diagnosis-Related Group Payments for Health : ...
December 2020. This book from the World Bank examines how nine different health systems--U.S. Medicare, Australia, Thailand, Kyrgyz Republic, Germany, Estonia, Croatia, China (Beijing) and the Russia...
Other Event: Will the Healthcare Technologies From COVID-19 ...
Registration Link | Read more about PMAC 2021 PMAC 2021 Webinar "Will the Healthcare Technologies From COVID-19 Lead to a Permanent Shift in How Global Healthcare is Delivered?" COVID-19 is the first ...
Health Financing in Response to Covid-19: An Agenda For Rese...
December 2020. This working paper from leading health financing researchers, outlines a broad research agenda that would help countries deal with the health financing challenges they are facing, and e...
Tobacconomics Cigarette Tax Scorecard
December 2020. The Tobacconomics team has recently launched the Tobacconomics Cigarette Tax Scorecard. The scorecard grades countries on a five-point scale using WHO Global Tobacco Control Reports, p...
5th Annual Health Financing Forum - Part 1 (July 2020)
The full-feature website for the 5th Annual Health Financing Forum Part 1 (July 2020) will be archived in June 2021. Here are the links to the session recordings. Session materials from Part 1 are ...
High-Performance Health Financing for Universal Health Cover...
June 2019. Report prepared by the World Bank for the meeting of the G20 Finance Ministers. Part 1 of the report, entitled “Time to Act,” aims to show why health financing for UHC matters and why now. ...
If you’re not ready, you need to adapt: lessons for managing...
October 2020. This blog post from P4H delineates some of the enabling features of PFM systems that engendered an effective health response to COVID-19 (“PFM system readiness”) and some of the challen...