With thanks to Waranya Rattanavipapong, HITAP Better policymaking for universal health coverage (UHC) requires different actors in the health system to have the right capacities to generate and use evidence. Led by HITAP, in Vietnam iDSI has been supporting the Health Strategy and Policy Institute (HSPI), a technical unit under the Ministry of Health, to build capacity for generating policy-relevant …
HTA Development in Vietnam
Health Benefits package in Vietnam April 2015 NICE International coordinated two events in Hanoi on health benefits package design in partnership with the Health Strategy and Policy Institute and the Vietnamese Health Economics Association. A health benefits package is the range of technologies and services that are available at a free or subsidised rate to the insured population, and the …
The political economy of priority-setting in health in LMICs
This is a discussion summary based on a private roundtable meeting held at the Center for Global Development in February 2015. Update (7 Sep 2015): The paper by Hauck & Smith is now published in the iDSI Knowledge Library. Why study the political economy of priority-setting in health? The global health agenda aims to reach universal health coverage (UHC)—which the …