Health Financing
Health financing is a core function of health systems that can enable progress towards universal health coverage by improving effective service coverage and financial protection. Today, millions of people do not access services due to the cost. Many others receive poor quality of services even when they pay out-of-pocket. Carefully designed and implemented health financing policies can help to address these issues. For example, contracting and payment arrangements can incentivize care coordination and improved quality of care; sufficient and timely disbursement of funds to providers can help to ensure adequate staffing and medicines to treat patients.
There are three main areas under this cluster:
- Health financing policy
- Health financing diagnostics
- Health expenditure tracking
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Tracking governance and administration expenditure under the System of Health Accounts 2011
This document analyses country practices for measuring expenditure on governance and health system and health financing administration (hereafter referred...
The traditional use of line-item budgeting, which categorizes public expenditures by detailed economic items, has negatively impacted the financing of...
Health systems globally are exploring avenues for maximizing value and transitioning out of a volume-based approach to health service provision and financing....
Using digital technologies to make access to medicines and dental care more affordable: a case study...
This study focuses on the use of digital technologies, alongside changes in coverage policy, to enhance affordable access to health care in Estonia. In...
Health Financing Progress Matrix assessment, Jordan 2024
This report summarizes the findings of the Health Financing Progress Matrix assessment, WHO’s standardized assessment of a country’s health...
Investment case for tobacco control in Fiji
Tobacco is a health and sustainable development issue. Tobacco causes early death and disease, results in high health costs and economic losses, widens...
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Exploring the effects of digital technologies in health financing for universal health coverage: a synthesis...
Health Financing Progress Matrix assessment: Sierra Leone 2021
The WHO has developed a Health Financing Progress Matrix, for countries to assess how far they have come in preparing their health financing systems to...
Making progress towards universal health coverage through health financing reforms
In order to setup the health financing system as a solid foundation for progress towards Universal Health Care in Sierra Leone, the Ministry of Health...
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