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Nigeria Health Financing Conference

  • Health financing was the theme of a major national conference held in Calabar, Nigeria in November 2011. The specific focus of the three-day conference was “Improving Financial Access to Health Services for the Poor in Nigeria.” Participants shared information on a wide range of health financing strategies and mechanisms employed in Nigeria as well as other countries. The 255 participants represented a broad range of expertise; they included health managers and providers, insurance specialists, health economists, government officials, and media representatives from all 36 states and the national capital. State representatives met in regional groups to discuss the approaches most applicable to their area and formulate plans to apply these approaches at the state or community level. The conference generated many “actionable” policy and program initiatives that the states and federal government can adopt.

    This presentation was one of five presentations made by the Health Policy Project. The presenter gave a brief overview of various software models available to help health planners and managers to estimate and project costs for various health services. These tools can be adapted for use at the state and local level and used to estimate costs to reach a specific goal or to expand or upgrade services.

  • In November 2011 in Nigeria, a landmark national conference, "Improving Financial Access to Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health Services for the Poor in Nigeria," was held. The conference organizers included three federal agencies, the African Health Economics and Policy Association, four United Nations agencies, three donor countries, and five health projects, including the Health Policy Project. A total of 255 experts from all 36 Nigerian states and the Federal Capital Territory came together to discuss strategies to improve financial access to integrated MNCH services, with the aim of achieving universal health coverage. These strategies highlighted the need for advocacy and policy change, innovation in the design and implementation of health financing schemes, strengthening of the social health insurance scheme, and collaboration with private sector health providers.

    A complete list of sponsoring agencies and all conference materials and presentations are available on the conference website at http://www.healthfinancenigeria.org.

  • Health financing was the theme of a major national conference held in Calabar, Nigeria in November 2011. The specific focus of the three-day conference was “Improving Financial Access to Health Services for the Poor in Nigeria.” Participants shared information on a wide range of health financing strategies and mechanisms employed in Nigeria as well as other countries. The 255 participants represented a broad range of expertise; they included health managers and providers, insurance specialists, health economists, government officials, and media representatives from all 36 states and the national capital. State representatives met in regional groups to discuss the approaches most applicable to their area and formulate plans to apply these approaches at the state or community level. The conference generated many “actionable” policy and program initiatives that the states and federal government can adopt.

    This is one of the five presentations made by the Health Policy Project. The presenter explains how to measure poverty and inequality, how to display poverty data to illustrate inequities in health status and use of health services, and, finally, how to understand and address common data challenges.

  • Health financing was the theme of a major national conference held in Calabar, Nigeria in November 2011. The specific focus of the three-day conference was “Improving Financial Access to Health Services for the Poor in Nigeria.” Participants shared information on a wide range of health financing strategies and mechanisms employed in Nigeria as well as other countries. The 255 participants represented a broad range of expertise; they included health managers and providers, insurance specialists, health economists, government officials, and media representatives from all 36 states and the national capital. State representatives met in regional groups to discuss the approaches most applicable to their area and formulate plans to apply these approaches at the state or community level. The conference generated many “actionable” policy and program initiatives that the states and federal government can adopt.

    This presentation is one of five presentations made by the Health Policy Project. The presenter gave an overview of a pilot project in Kenya, which found that the provision of subsidized vouchers for maternal health and family planning services were effective in reaching the poor at a reasonable cost; providers were paid for specific services (rather than supporting operating costs).

  • This presentation is one of five made by the Health Policy Project at a national health financing conference held in Calabar, Nigeria, in November 2011. Participants, including health managers and providers, insurance specialists, health economists, government officials, and media representatives, shared information on a wide range of health financing strategies and mechanisms employed in Nigeria and other countries.

    The Equity Framework is an approach that targets family planning and reproductive health resources to the poor—a segment of the population that is often overlooked in health program planning. The presentation examines a case study in Jharkhand, India—one of India’s poorest states—where health planners applied the Equity Framework to develop a voucher scheme to enable low-income women to access reproductive health services. Conference participants were able to learn from the success garnered in India and adopt similar policy and program initiatives to expand access to family planning and reproductive health services to the poor in Nigeria.

  • Health financing was the theme of a major national conference held in Calabar, Nigeria in November 2011. The specific focus of the three-day conference was “Improving Financial Access to Health Services for the Poor in Nigeria.” Participants shared information on a wide range of health financing strategies and mechanisms employed in Nigeria as well as other countries. The 255 participants represented a broad range of expertise; they included health managers and providers, insurance specialists, health economists, government officials, and media representatives from all 36 states and the national capital. State representatives met in regional groups to discuss the approaches most applicable to their area and formulate plans to apply these approaches at the state or community level. The conference generated many “actionable” policy and program initiatives that the states and federal government can adopt.

    This presentation is one of five presentations made by the Health Policy Project. The presenter gave an overview of an activity in Peru, where family planning advocates analyzed the needs of low-income women and successfully tapped into funding sources at the local, regional, and national level to increase access to FP services.