Healthcare
How Does the Healthcare System Work? A Guide
How healthcare systems work: financing models, levels of care, providers, regulation and how single-payer, insurance-based and mixed systems differ worldwide.
Health financing
How care is paid for — taxation, social insurance, private insurance, out-of-pocket — decides who can obtain it and what happens to a household when illness arrives. Financing is where health policy becomes concrete.
Our reporting covers coverage schemes, cost growth, and the household consequences of paying for care directly.
Healthcare Management
What Is Value-Based Healthcare? How the Model Works
Value-based healthcare explained: how outcomes-per-cost differs from fee-for-service, payment models, outcome measurement, evidence to date and known criticisms.
Public Health
Global Health Challenges: The Major Issues Worldwide
The major global health challenges: NCDs, antimicrobial resistance, pandemic risk, workforce shortages, climate change, mental health and health financing gaps.
Public Health
Health Equity Explained: Access to Care Worldwide
Health equity explained: what it means, how it differs from equality, social determinants of health, global and within-country disparities, and what actually works.