Supporting HTA capacity building in India. Collaborating to improve HTA, health data and health care across India iDSI is supporting India’s ambitious move towards Universal Health Coverage (UHC). In...

Making the case for HTA in Ghana. A hypertension study sparking long-term future change Hypertension is one of Ghana’s most widespread – and costly – health issues. A landmark pilot study created policy...

Long-term partnerships in China. Putting evidence and analysis at the heart of China’s health agenda. Health systems cannot be improved overnight. The partnerships and friendships built between iDSI team...

Colorectal cancer is the third most common cancer in Indonesia with approximately 28,000 patients diagnosed each year. Without population-based screening, patients are often treated when they reach the...

National lists of essential medicines lay out the medicines needed to meet each country’s top health priorities....

India is home to 69 million people with type-2 diabetes. A serious complication of the disease is foot ulcers, which significantly increase a patient’s risk of amputation and death as well as financial burden....

Health Technology Assessment (HTA) is one approach countries can take to prioritise health services in a systematic and transparent way. iDSI has traced the origins of HTA in China, from its introduction to...

Financing, political support and a clear strategic vision are key drivers of the realisation of Universal Health Coverage. As Ghana moves away from development assistance, iDSI traced Ghana’s path towards UHC...

Smart decisions about healthcare spending are vital to countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, where resources are incredibly constrained and every dollar spent is often literally a life or death decision....

Almost every diabetic patient in Indonesia that requires insulin to control their blood sugar is treated with the newer generation insulin analogue, despite internationally recognized guidance that low and...

Using Health Technology Assessment to address inefficient and unequal use of Nilotinib across Indonesia...

The essential component of a successful universal health coverage program...

Information is the only block among the six health systems building blocks that comprehensively describes the other five blocks of health service delivery, workforce, financing, medicine and technology and...

The World Health Organization in 1978 (WHO 1978) advocated for primary health care (PHC) as a strategy to achieve Health For All (HFA) by the year 2000....

Universal health coverage (UHC) aims to “ensure that all people can use the promotive, preventive, curative, rehabilitative and palliative health services they need, and that these are of sufficient...