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Health financing progress matrix assessment, Zambia 2024

This report summarizes the findings of the Health Financing Progress Matrix assessment for Zambia. Recognizing the remarkable progress towards UHC made...

Health financing system assessment, Tajikistan 2023: health financing progress matrix

This report summarizes the findings of the Health Financing Progress Matrix assessment, WHO’s standardized assessment of a country’s health...

Tracking inequalities in financial hardship due to out-of-pocket health spending by age structure of a household: technical brief on measurement

This brief first provides more conceptual details about how a life-course approach can be adapted to track inequalities in financial hardship due to out-of-pocket...

Political economy analysis for health financing

This “Political Economy of Health Financing: How-to Guide” lays out a structured way to organize and analyze key political economy factors...

Strengthening pandemic preparedness and response through integrated modelling

The far-reaching impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic underscore the critical need for evidence-informed, transparent and inclusive decision-making. Policy-makers...

Framework for assessing maturity of health accounts institutionalization

This document provides a framework for assessing the maturity of the institutionalization of Health Accounts (HA). The framework is based on elements commonly...

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There has been significant interest globally in understanding how purchasing arrangements can be designed strategically to optimize the delivery of health...

Global spending on health: Coping with the pandemic

The report shows that global spending on health continued to increase in 2021, the second year of the pandemic, to US$ 9.8 trillion (10.3% of global GDP)....

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