Health Financing and Economics
We aim to empower actors and increase accountability, transparency and responsiveness in health systems in support of progress towards financial protection as part of universal health coverage (UHC).

Economic Evaluation & Analysis

The Economic Evaluation and Analysis (EEA) team assists countries to collect, evaluate and introduce economic evidence into health policy. Cognizant from the start of resource constraints in countries at whatever income level, prioritization with a focus on allocative and technical efficiency is a key work area. Addressing the resource allocation decisions that policymakers regularly face, the work area on value for money and prioritization also includes considerations of health system feasibility, costs and budget impact, and an assessment of the contribution of improved health to the economy. EEA also measures and evaluates the impact of health financing and other policies on universal health coverage, specifically on equity and on financial protection. All these are accomplished by leading, advocating, and developing methods, tools, and standards, by increasing country capacity, and by providing technical assistance to countries to produce and to use economic evidence.

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Tracking inequalities in financial hardship due to out-of-pocket health spending by age structure of a household: technical brief on measurement

This brief first provides more conceptual details about how a life-course approach can be adapted to track inequalities in financial hardship due to out-of-pocket...

Strengthening pandemic preparedness and response through integrated modelling

The far-reaching impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic underscore the critical need for evidence-informed, transparent and inclusive decision-making. Policy-makers...

WHO menu of cost-effective interventions for mental health

IntroductionIn 2019, the Seventy-second World Health Assembly requested the WHO Director-General to prepare a menu of policy options and cost-effective...

From value for money to value-based health services: a twenty-first century shift

Health policy makers around the world have long shown interest in the value created by health systems and this preoccupation will likely only intensify...

Institutionalizing health technology assessment mechanisms: a how to guide

It is increasing apparent that countries are finding it difficult  to finance their universal health coverage goals.  They must generate more...

Principles of health benefit packages

No country in the world is able to provide every health service to everyone. Choices must be made on the path to universal health coverage.  By changing...

Sustaining lives and livelihoods: a decision framework for calibrating social and movement measures during the COVID-19 pandemic

Social and physical distancing and restrictions on international travel (thereafter “social and movement measures”) have been introduced to...

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The global landscape of country-level health technology assessment processes: A survey among 104 countries

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The cost-effectiveness of banning highly hazardous pesticides to prevent suicides due to pesticide self-ingestion across 14 countries: an economic modelling study

The Lancet Global Health Volume 9, Issue 3, March 2021, Pages e291-e300

Are the “Best Buys” for Alcohol Control Still Valid? An Update on the Comparative Cost-Effectiveness of Alcohol Control Strategies at the Global Level

Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, 79(4), 514–522 (2018).

Cost-Effectiveness of Interventions to Improve Maternal, Newborn and Child Health Outcomes: A WHO-CHOICE Analysis for Eastern Sub-Saharan Africa and South-East Asia

Progressive Realisation of Universal Health Coverage in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Beyond the “Best Buys”

Int J Health Policy Manag 2020, x(x), 1–9

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