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Although there are few assessments of what low- and middle-income countries need to implement basic elements of primary health care, there is a huge financing gap for universal health coverage, estimated to reach $371 billion or $58 per person annually by 2030. Countries are struggling to finance th...

In a world of limited resources and rising health care demand, decision-makers are permanently urged to make explicit, evidence-based decisions about which services or health technologies to fund, for whom, and how much to pay for them. Health technology assessment (HTA) plays a critical role in thi...

Priority-setting in health is a critical function of all health systems, enabling countries to focus their spending on services that have the biggest impact on their citizens’ health. This works—for every dollar spent on priority-setting, countries get nine dollars of better health system impact. Ho...

Colombia embarked on a major health sector reform in 1993, introducing a mandatory universal social health insurance system and a priority-setting system featuring a health benefits package (HBP). This HBP defined which interventions were covered by the system, whom it was for, and at what costs. In...

Today we release two new guides that can support countries through the first two critical steps in priority setting reforms: carrying out a situational analysis and then developing a national HTA framework. These are based on the last 10 years’ experience of the international Decision Support Initia...

Amidst stagnating levels of development assistance for health, questions about the future of vertical programs such as PEPFAR, lackluster performance on the Sustainable Development Goal for health, and growing calls to address excessive fragmentation in global health, the global health community is ...