Health Financing Policy and Strategy Development

This policy brief proposes that Namibia should prioritize strengthening the tax-funded public health system provided through the Ministry of Health and Social Services (MOHSS) as the backbone of its UHC financing approach over other pooling options.

This brief focuses on how pooling arrangements—the way countries combine funding from different sources to spread the financial risk of needing to pay for health services—can be improved to accelerate progress toward UHC.

This learning resource presents key learning from the activity literature review, learning exchange meetings, and TA workshops. This resource focuses particularly on stakeholder engagement and institutionalizing stronger links between national health priorities, sector plans and national budgets, which learning partners identified as their most pressing issues.

One-page document outlining key findings and actionable insights related to health financing strategies from the USAID Health System Sustainability Activity in Timor-Leste.

The proposed Health Financing Unit will serve as the steward within the Ministry of Health (MOH) to ensure that sufficient funding is available to the health system and used effectively and efficiently to ensure the population’s access to public health services.

LHSS identifies the information gaps and disparities to achieve the SN-CSU objectives with the data from key UHC-related documents in Madagascar. 

This document provides an executive summary, in English, of an LHSS analysis of the financial needs of selected territorial entities in Colombia to cover the health care costs of Venezuelan migrants.

This document provides a roadmap for Vietnam’s National Tuberculosis (TB) Program to transition procurement and payment for TB drugs to the country’s social health insurance scheme.

This report summarizes the results of a review of international experience and best practices related to pro-health excise taxes.

LHSS in this report recommends that the government raise pro-health excise taxes at greater rates than currently proposed by the Ministry of Finance in order to increase the revenue raised.

This rapid assessment aimed to determine which health facilities in seven high-TB burden provinces of Vietnam meet social health insurance (SHI) requirements for TB service provision and for reimbursement of TB services through the SHI scheme.

LHSS in the DRC conducted this study with the aim to describe the situation of health financing in the DRC, including aspects of governance, public finance, resource mobilization, pooling, and procurement of services. This is a retrospective and analytical descriptive study, focusing on the period from 2006 to 2023. This report is also available in French.

This French analysis report is conducted by LHSS DRC, with the aim to describe the situation of health financing, in particular the aspects of governance, public finances, and mainly those related to the three functions of health financing, namely: resource mobilization, pooling, and procurement of services. This report is also available in English.

This course is an interactive, five module online self-study course; each module allows participants to engage with the materials and reflect on their own country’s context.