Transforming PHC Delivery and Financing Through Primary Care Networks
This learning brief highlights the process for developing this learning community and some of the key learnings on how to successfully implement PCNs. Furthermore, it provides key recommendations for country policymakers, practitioners, and development partners based on lessons from the PHCPI COP.
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Bottoms Up: Implementing Alcohol Policies to Raise Revenue and Protect Health
This blog provides an overview of published learnings from alcohol policies, building upon a webinar series hosted by the Domestic Resource Mobilization (DRM) Collaborative under the Joint Learning Network for Universal Health Coverage.
Over 2.3 billion people globally currently drink alcohol, consuming an average of 33 grams of pure alcohol per day. In parts of Eastern Europe and sub-Saharan Africa, over 60 percent of current drinkers engage in heavy episodic drinking, consuming at least 60 grams of pure alcohol at least once a month. The health consequences of the harmful use of alcohol are significant.
DRM Collaborative Seminar Series
DRM collaborative's Health Taxes Seminar Series and The Financial Protection in Health Seminar Series DRM Collaborative Health Taxes Seminar Series The JLN DRM collaborative Health Taxes Seminar Series (HTSS) began in 2020 as countries responded to COVID-19 while...
Earmarking in Ghana: Impacts on the Financial Sustainability of the National Health Insurance Scheme
In 2003, Ghana’s National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) was established using a set of unique earmarked funding sources to help move the country toward Universal Health Coverage. This funding provided a critical source of domestic revenue that allowed Ghana to remove its previous “cash and carry” system and implement one of the best-known public insurance schemes in the region.