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May 8, 2024 · 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.
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Jul 24, 2024 · “The principal source of health system finance is taxation by the provincial, territorial and federal governments: general taxation provides well over two thirds of all financing for health (Table 3.2).
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.
Financing is pivotal to the performance of a health system and to achieving UHC. Well-executed revenue generation, pooling and purchasing are crucial to ensure that resources are available to those who need health care, and to ensure that the health system obtains value for money.
- Jonathan Cylus, Julia Sallaku, Matthew Jowett
- 2022
The main sources of revenue for private health insurance are either compulsory or voluntary prepayments, which typically take the form of regular premium payments as part of an insurance contract. Out-of-pocket payments are exclusively financed from households’ own revenues.
Health financing is one of the six building blocks of health systems, and it is closely related to another building block – governance. Taken together, they have a huge impact on access to health and care services and our ability to meet the Sustainable Development Goals targets on universal health coverage. The area lends itself well both to ...
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We estimated health spending from four main funding sources—government, out-of-pocket, prepaid private, and DAH—for 195 countries and territories. “Countries and territories” are referred to only as “countries”, which are categorised into four World Bank income groups and seven Global Burden of Disease (GBD) super-regions.
