HFACT policy themes revolve around a set of national and international challenges
Ongoing research activities:
- Increased knowledge of the impact of Development Assistance for Health (DAH) on different indicators of financial risk protection in DAH-recipient countries
- Fiscal space for health in the context of contemporary fiscal health reforms in India: A state-level analysis
- Knowledge of whether mineral/oil royalties contribute to improving health outcomes related to primary care-sensitive causes in municipalities entitled to receive such revenues in Brazil
- An understanding of the impact of macroeconomic fluctuations on Domestic Fiscal Space for Health, health expenditure, health outcomes and inequalities in Brazil
Ongoing research activities:
- An understanding of how the turnover rate of ESF health professionals in the long-run impacts the municipality’s own resources spending to fund ESF in Brazil
- An evaluation of the classification algorithm change from UN data classifications to country-specific classifications and the impact on hospital payment mechanisms in Indonesia
- Increased knowledge of how the trend of health centres’ performance relates to the BPJS health insurance capitation payment system in Indonesia
- A retrospective review of strategic purchasing arrangements provinces in South Africa
- To assemble a model, using a constrained optimization technique developed by researchers at York to help design an essential benefits’ package in South Africa
- An understanding of the impact of changes in health inequality between socioeconomic groups for a unit change in the level of health expenditure in Indonesia
Ongoing research activities:
- A study of the effects of human resource turnover on health care production and outcomes in Brazil
- An evaluation of the impact of JKN-PBI on specific health outcomes using a regression discontinuity design to compare beneficiary and non-beneficiary households in the region of the eligibility threshold in Indonesia
- A comparison of inequalities in health and in access to healthcare among older adults in the project partner countries
- A study of the cost-effectiveness and budget impact of providing free Prevention of mother to Child Transmissions (PMTCT) treatment to migrant mothers, compared to restricting its availability to South African nationals only in South Africa
- An investigation of whether the universal health financing system contributes to deepening racial inequalities in Brazil
- An understanding of whether access of the elderly to health care facilities is affected by the demographic weight of the elderly in the village population in India
- An exploration of the relationship between distance/travel time to a health facility and utilisation of health care services, out of pocket health expenditures, health outcomes, enrolment in health insurance schemes, maternal and child health indicators in India
- An understanding of the impact of innovative demand-side subsidy on child and mother health outcomes in Indonesia
Ongoing research activities:
- An understanding of the historical and potential role of urban local bodies in health with particular focus on financing, in view of the recent policy initiative recommending devolution of health sector specific grants to local governments in India
- An increased understanding at the cross-country level of how state capacity is instrumental to shape the design, priority-setting and implementation of health systems financing policies
- An understanding of the elasticity of health expenditure in response to an increase in health outcomes and what the supply side Cost Effectiveness Threshold estimate is for Indonesia
