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Contents tagged: health expenditure

July 26, 2017 South-East Asia Publication

Strengthening governance and accountability, Coordinating services within and across sectors, Creating an enabling environment

Out-of-Pocket and Informal Payment Before and After the Health Transformation Plan in Iran: Evidence from Hospitals Located in Kurdistan, Iran

One of the objetives of the health transformation plan (HTP) in Iran is to reduce out-of-pocket (OOP) payments for inpatient services and eradicate informal payments. The HTP has three phases: the first phase is focused on reducing OOP payments for inpatient services; the second phase is focused on primary healthcare (PHC) and the third phase utilizes an updated relative value units for health services and is focused on the elimination of informal payments. This aim of this study was to determine the OOP payments and the frecuency on informal cash payments to physicians for inpatient services before and after the HTP in Kurdistan province, Iran.

health expenditure, health system reform, informal payment, out-of-pocket (oop) payment

April 18, 2019 Africa Publication

Engaging and empowering people and communities, Coordinating services within and across sectors, Creating an enabling environment

Community health extension program of Ethiopia, 2003–2018: successes and challenges toward universal coverage for primary healthcare services

The Alma-Ata Declaration of 1978 identified primary health care (PHC) as the key approach to the attainment of the goal of “Health for All”. The PHC approach tackles the main health problems in the community through the provision of essential health services. The implementation of the PHC approach relies on health workers, including community health workers (CHWs) Ethiopia has been implementing a community health extension program (HEP) since 2003. The aim of this studya was to assess the successes and challenges of the HEP over time, and develop a framework that may assist the implementation of the program toward universal primary healthcare services

community health workers, development, framework, health expenditure, primary health care, universal health coverage