Akihito Watabe Keywords health financing health insurance digitalization digital health Read more about Akihito Watabe Dr. Watabe joined the Asian Development Bank (ADB) in May 2023 as a health specialist. He primarily focuses on technical assistance and projects in the area of health financing for universal health coverage (UHC), digital health financing, health impact investment, and climate change and health investment.
Setting the Context: Digitization within Health Financing Schemes Read more about Setting the Context: Digitization within Health Financing Schemes This presentation gives an overview of how ADB helps in improving inefficiencies in health systems through digitization.
Enhancing National Health Financing through Digital Technologies: Innovations and Lessons from Asia and the Pacific Region Read more about Enhancing National Health Financing through Digital Technologies: Innovations and Lessons from Asia and the Pacific Region
Barbara McPake Keywords green climate fund climate change resilience learning week climate finance gap health system strengthening health financing health workforce Read more about Barbara McPake Professor Barbara McPake joined the Nossal Institute in July 2014. She was Director of the Institute for International Health and Development at Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh. Between 1991 and 2005, Barbara lectured in Health Economics at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. She also served as Head of the Health Policy Unit and Director of the Knowledge Program on Health Systems Development, supported by the UK Department for International Development.
Paying Primary Care through National Health Insurance Read more about Paying Primary Care through National Health Insurance ADB's Eduardo Banzon discussed the role of national health insurance (NHI) in expanding primary care services in Asia. He also described the implementation steps needed to enable NHI paying for primary care, analyzed the bottlenecks and barriers of NHI coverage of primary care, and identified interventions that may address the bottlenecks and barriers.
Understanding Fiscal Space for Universal Health Coverage Read more about Understanding Fiscal Space for Universal Health Coverage Learn more about fiscal space for health and how countries that have achieved universal health coverage financed the sector.
Health Financing Read more about Health Financing A core question for a health system is not how to finance healthcare costs, but how to make tradeoffs among competing goals. This presentation looks into the health care philosophy applied by Singapore, and how its public health infrastructure and a tiered approach has built a health population.
Solutions to Promote Strategic ICT Investments Read more about Solutions to Promote Strategic ICT Investments This session involved health sector and non-health sector stakeholders and decision makers. It provided them with actionable evidence-based business cases for strategic ICT investments to (i) explain what kind of ICT investments to prioritize; (ii) how to implement and what benefits and results to expect; and (iii) who to involve.