Health financing policy

Selected country experiences

Yemen

Poverty and diseases, many of them preventable, plague the Yemeni health system. There are some private health benefit schemes but the population at large is mostly not covered by any prepayment mechanisms. Out-of-pocket payments are high and the better-off look for treatment abroad.

Based on a Decree of the Cabinet of the Republic of Yemen, a team from German Development Cooperation (GTZ), the International Labour Office (ILO) and the World Health Organization (WHO) conducted a study assessing the feasibility of a national health insurance system in Yemen. The study contains a baseline assessment, alternative options for a national health insurance system and recommendations for action. It is available for download in both Arabic (below) and English (further below):

نحو نظام تأمين صحي وطني في اليمن

الجزء الأول: الخلفية والتقديرات

الجزء الثاني: الخيارات والتوصيات

Towards a national health insurance system in Yemen

Part 1: Background and assessments

Part 2: Options and recommendations

Part 3: Materials and documents

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Selected countries

  1. Eastern Mediterranean
  2. Yemen

The full study is available as a zipped archive here. Note that these files are very large and may take some time to download. Alternatively you can download by chapter from the list on the left.

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