Health Financing Reforms for Moving towards Universal Health Coverage in the Western Pacific Region

Designing health financing policy towards universal coverage.

a Department of Health Systems Financing, World Health Organization, 20 avenue Appia, 1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland. Correspondence to Guy Carrin (e-mail:[email protected]). doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.046664 How health systems are financed largely determines whether people can obtain needed health care and whether they suffer financial hardship as a result of obtaining care. Both design and implementation...

Moving towards universal health coverage: health insurance reforms in nine developing countries in Africa and Asia.

We analyse nine low-income and lower-middle-income countries in Africa and Asia that have implemented national health insurance reforms designed to move towards universal health coverage. Using the functions-of-health-systems framework, we describe these countries' approaches to raising prepaid revenues, pooling risk, and purchasing services. Then, using the coverage-box framework, we assess th...

Health status and health systems financing in the MENA region: roadmap to universal health coverage

Background Since the declaration of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in 1990, many countries of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region made some improvements in maternal and child health and in tackling communicable diseases. The transition to the global agenda of Sustainable Development Goals brings new opportunities for countries to move forward toward achieving progress for be...

Moving from ideas to action - developing health financing systems towards universal coverage in Africa

UNLABELLED BACKGROUND Accelerating progress towards universal coverage in African countries calls for concrete actions that reinforce social health protection through establishment of sustainable health financing mechanisms. In order to explore possible pathways for moving past the existing obstacles, panel discussions were organized on health financing bringing together Ministers of health ...

Effective Coverage as a New Metric for Monitoring Progress towards Universal Health Coverage