Uganda: transitioning from external health financing

Uganda: transitioning from external health financing
Author: World Health Organization
Publisher: World Health Organization
Total Pages: 6
Release: 2024-03-04
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9240085459

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The Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research and the Department of Financing and Economics within the World Health Organization have supported a series of research studies aimed at understanding how and why countries have (or have not) been able to sustain or increase effective coverage of health interventions previously funded by donors. The studies also explore the enablers and barriers to this. This briefing focuses on the context of Uganda.

Georgia: transitioning from external health financing

Georgia: transitioning from external health financing
Author: World Health Organization
Publisher: World Health Organization
Total Pages: 6
Release: 2024-03-04
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 9240085432

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The Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research and the Department of Financing and Economics within the World Health Organization have supported a series of research studies aimed at understanding how and why countries have (or have not) been able to sustain or increase effective coverage of health interventions previously funded by donors. The studies also explore the enablers and barriers to this. This briefing focuses on the context of Georgia.

Going Universal

Going Universal
Author: Daniel Cotlear
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2015-09-28
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 146480611X

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This book is about 24 developing countries that have embarked on the journey towards universal health coverage (UHC) following a bottom-up approach, with a special focus on the poor and vulnerable, through a systematic data collection that provides practical insights to policymakers and practitioners. Each of the UHC programs analyzed in this book is seeking to overcome the legacy of inequality by tackling both a “financing gap†? and a “provision gap†?: the financing gap (or lower per capita spending on the poor) by spending additional resources in a pro-poor way; the provision gap (or underperformance of service delivery for the poor) by expanding supply and changing incentives in a variety of ways. The prevailing view seems to indicate that UHC require not just more money, but also a focus on changing the rules of the game for spending health system resources. The book does not attempt to identify best practices, but rather aims to help policy makers understand the options they face, and help develop a new operational research agenda. The main chapters are focused on providing a granular understanding of policy design, while the appendixes offer a systematic review of the literature attempting to evaluate UHC program impact on access to services, on financial protection, and on health outcomes.

Health Financing Revisited

Health Financing Revisited
Author: Pablo Enrique Gottret
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2006-01-01
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 082136586X

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This overview of health financing tools, policies and trends--with a particular focus on challenges facing developing countries--provides the basis for effective policy-making. Analyzing the current global environment, the book discusses health financing goals in the context of both the underlying health, demographic, social, economic, political and demographic analytics as well as the institutional realities faced by developing countries, and assesses policy options in the context of global evidence, the international aid architecture, cross-sectoral interactions, and countries' macroeconomic frameworks and overall development plans.

Performance-Based Financing Toolkit

Performance-Based Financing Toolkit
Author: György Bèla Fritsche
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 361
Release: 2014-02-27
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1464801282

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Performance-based financing (PBF) is a comprehensive health systems approach that is expanding in regions around the world. Based on first-hand experience of PBF pioneers, this toolkit provides the state-of-art knowledge, methods, and tools for setting up an effective PBF approach in lower-and middle income settings.

Global Health and the Future Role of the United States

Global Health and the Future Role of the United States
Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 385
Release: 2017-10-05
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0309457637

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While much progress has been made on achieving the Millenium Development Goals over the last decade, the number and complexity of global health challenges has persisted. Growing forces for globalization have increased the interconnectedness of the world and our interdependency on other countries, economies, and cultures. Monumental growth in international travel and trade have brought improved access to goods and services for many, but also carry ongoing and ever-present threats of zoonotic spillover and infectious disease outbreaks that threaten all. Global Health and the Future Role of the United States identifies global health priorities in light of current and emerging world threats. This report assesses the current global health landscape and how challenges, actions, and players have evolved over the last decade across a wide range of issues, and provides recommendations on how to increase responsiveness, coordination, and efficiency â€" both within the U.S. government and across the global health field.

Financing Health Services in Developing Countries

Financing Health Services in Developing Countries
Author: John S. Akin
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 104
Release: 1987-01-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780821309001

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This report discusses several different approaches that support reforming health care services in developing countries. For some time now, health care services have been supported by government funds. As demands for improving health care services continue to increase additional demands will be placed on governments to respond. This, however, will not be easy. Slow economic growth and record budget deficits in the 1980's have forced reductions in public spending. Alternative approaches to finance health care services are needed. Such possible changes could involve: decentralization of federal government involvement; the promotion of nongovernment involvement; the imposition of user fees; and, establishing health insurance. Finally, the role of the Bank in pursuing new financing strategies is discussed.

Crossing the Global Quality Chasm

Crossing the Global Quality Chasm
Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 399
Release: 2019-01-27
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0309477891

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In 2015, building on the advances of the Millennium Development Goals, the United Nations adopted Sustainable Development Goals that include an explicit commitment to achieve universal health coverage by 2030. However, enormous gaps remain between what is achievable in human health and where global health stands today, and progress has been both incomplete and unevenly distributed. In order to meet this goal, a deliberate and comprehensive effort is needed to improve the quality of health care services globally. Crossing the Global Quality Chasm: Improving Health Care Worldwide focuses on one particular shortfall in health care affecting global populations: defects in the quality of care. This study reviews the available evidence on the quality of care worldwide and makes recommendations to improve health care quality globally while expanding access to preventive and therapeutic services, with a focus in low-resource areas. Crossing the Global Quality Chasm emphasizes the organization and delivery of safe and effective care at the patient/provider interface. This study explores issues of access to services and commodities, effectiveness, safety, efficiency, and equity. Focusing on front line service delivery that can directly impact health outcomes for individuals and populations, this book will be an essential guide for key stakeholders, governments, donors, health systems, and others involved in health care.

Financing The Education Of Health Workers: Gaining A Competitive Edge

Financing The Education Of Health Workers: Gaining A Competitive Edge
Author: Alexander S Preker
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 603
Release: 2019-08-27
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9813278765

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This volume reviews the economic underpinnings (investment and financing) and institutional reforms needed to successfully scale up the education of health workers. In this regard, the book examines five major economic and institutional challenges that policy makers face: (1) governance of health education organizations and systems; (2) approaches to financing the education of health workers; (3) the special nature of capital investment in expanding the capacity of health education institutions; (4) public-private partnerships in health education; and (5) equity in accessing health education, with a special focus on issues that arise from private approaches to the education of health workers.Much of the existing literature focuses on the quality and contents of training health workers, and very little has been written on the institutional dimension of financing their training and education. This book examines the complex institutional and financial models and approaches that can impact the demand and supply of health worker education programs around the world.Building on the findings of the Independent Commission on the Education of Health Professionals for the 21st Century, which published on the foundations and the issues of global postsecondary professional education, this volume brings in new and in-depth aspects such as governance, capital investments, and the role of the private sector in the production of health professionals; thus allowing the reader to understand how the health worker education field has moved from theory to practice.