Health Finance
The Health Finance unit provides technical assistance to Member States to develop robust health financing systems across the core functions of revenue collection, pooling and purchasing. HPF also supports countries to develop coherent and realistic health legislation, policies, strategies and plans, with strong links between national and operational levels, and to monitor their implementation.
Latest publications
Progress towards universal health coverage: monitoring financial protection in the Western Pacific Region
Financial protection lies at the core of universal health coverage. The regional monitoring report on financial protection shows that the Region was off-track...
Regional Framework on the Future of Primary Health Care (PHC) was adopted by Member States at the seventy-third session of the Regional Committee for the...
Progress towards universal health coverage in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic: monitoring financial...
Financial protection is a key objective of the health system in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Lao PDR) to achieve the government’s...
17th WHO-OECD Annual Meeting of Asia-Pacific Health Accounts Experts, Virtual meeting, 22-23 August 2022:...
Health accounts are ways for countries to monitor health spending. Understanding health spending allows policy-makers to learn from past expenditures...
