Resources


Primary Health Care Financing and Payment: Lessons and Best Practices from the COVID-19 Pandemic

March 25, 2021

This report includes six case studies sharing how Bangladesh, China, Kenya, Nigeria, the Philippines, and the Republic of Korea have coordinated their COVID-19 pandemic responses. The case studies, which were developed by the JLN Primary Healthcare (PHC) Financing and Payment Collaborative sub-group, also cover how these countries are financing and paying for essential health services at the primary health care level. […]

Medical Audits in Malaysia

January 29, 2021

Malaysia’s use of the Toolkit to Develop and Strengthen Medical Audit Systems shaped the operations for a new Medical Audit Section responsible for auditing PeKa B40 claims. The SOPs for the unit support identifying and deterring fraud and review of provider perfomance resulting in improved quality of health care screenings. This case study profiles the […]

Costing of Health Services for Provider Payment in Kenya

Kenya’s use of the Costing of Health Services for Provider Payment toolkit produced findings that were used to change county-level reimbursement models to lower costs, increase efficiency and improve financial sustainabilty. This case study profiles the use of Costing of Health Services for Provider Payment in Kenya. In Makueni County, the government has the mandate […]

UHC PHC Self-Assessment in Malaysia

Malaysia’s use of the JLN UHC PHC Self-Assessment produced findings that were used to improve public private partnerships to increase PHC coverage. This case study profiles the use of the Universal Health Coverage Primary Health Care Self-Assessment Tool in Malaysia. Malaysia piloted this self-assessment tool as a cross-sectional study collecting both qualitative and quantitative data […]

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On Prioritizing Health: A Background Analysis

October 26, 2020

This resource shares the results of a global review of country efforts to prioritize public spending in the health sector, intended as background reading material developed during the course of the JLN’s Domestic Resource Mobilization (DRM) collaborative. On Prioritizing Health: A Background Analysis includes a global review of health share of public spending across 20 […]