Regardless of their country’s income level, decision-makers are forced to choose where and how best to spend their health budgets. Health Priority Setting: A Practitioner’s Handbook provides practical guidance for low-and middle-income countries on how to use data and evidence when allocating resources in the health sector to help achieve their health priorities. Co-produced by the […]
As more countries aim to implement universal health coverage (UHC), leaders will face challenging decisions from scarce resources. In addition to increasing health sector allocations, improving health system efficiency will be critical to their journeys to achieve UHC. Measuring Health System Efficiency in Low- and Middle-income Countries: A Resource Guide introduces the concepts and principles of […]
The Health Financing technical initiative was launched after extensive consultations with JLN member countries and the JLN Steering Group, including during the Annual UHC Financing Forum (April 2016, Washington DC), the 2016 JLN Global Meeting (July 2016, Malaysia), and through multiple JLN Member surveys. The World Bank led a country-by-country consultation was from February to […]
This document provides an introduction to the development and use of system requirements, that countries can use as a starting point to define, design, and implement information systems to support health insurance programs.
This guide is a companion to the Using Health Data to Improve Universal Health Coverage case studies published in December 2018 and serves as a starting point for countries to assess their data use maturity, identify areas of possible improvement, and apply lessons from the case studies to their context.