Egypt : Health Sector Reform and Financing Review
In 1997, the Ministry of Health and Population (MOHP) of the Government of Egypt (GOE) launched a comprehensive Health Sector Reform Program (HSRP) aiming to develop a national health system, based on social insurance that would address existing pr...
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Format: | Health Sector Review |
Language: | English en_US |
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Washington, DC
2013
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Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2004/02/8530918/egypt-health-sector-reform-financing-review http://hdl.handle.net/10986/14355 |
Summary: | In 1997, the Ministry of Health and
Population (MOHP) of the Government of Egypt (GOE) launched
a comprehensive Health Sector Reform Program (HSRP) aiming
to develop a national health system, based on social
insurance that would address existing problems in equity,
access, efficiency, quality and financial sustainability.
The purpose of the Health Sector Reform and Financing Review
is to provide the GOE and its development partners with a
critical assessment of experience to date with the reform.
At a critical juncture of the program's life, such an
assessment is imperative to inform future phases of the
reform and to revalidate, modify, or if necessary revisit
the model envisioned at the outset. This study is comprised
of five sections: the first sets the background for the
study by reassessing the health sector problems that
triggered the reform efforts; in the second section, the
status of implementation of the HSR Pilot Project will be
reviewed in relation to the model envisioned at the outset;
section four tries to interpret why implementation of the
HSR Pilot Project met, exceeded, or fell short of
expectations; in section four, short-term and medium-term
reform strategies are proposed aimed at expanding and
sustaining the HSR Pilot Project; finally section five
concludes the study with a summary of main findings and
presents a road map for the future of health sector reform
in Egypt. |
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