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Chapter 5 - Financing Health Care

Revenue Raising, Pooling, and Purchasing

from Section 1 - Analyzing Health Systems: Concepts, Components, Performance

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 December 2022

By
David B. Evans ,
Awad Mataria ,
Christoph Kurowski  and
Martin Schmidt
Edited by
Sameen Siddiqi ,
Awad Mataria ,
Katherine D. Rouleau  and
Meesha Iqbal
Sameen Siddiqi
Affiliation:
Aga Khan University
Awad Mataria
Affiliation:
World Health Organization, Egypt
Katherine D. Rouleau
Affiliation:
University of Toronto
Meesha Iqbal
Affiliation:
UTHealth School of Public Health, Houston
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Summary

High performance health financing requires funding levels that are adequate, sustainable and resilient to meet country health goals, pooling that is sufficient to spread the financial risks of ill-health across the population, and spending that is both efficient and equitable to assure the desired levels of health service coverage, quality, and financial protection for all people. This chapter describes the various components of health financing and how they interact to determine how rapidly countries can approach the goal of Universal Health Coverage.

Keywords

High-performance health financingRevenue generationPoolingPurchasingEfficiencyEquityHealth financing sustainabilityHealth financing resilienceL&MIC
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Making Health Systems Work in Low and Middle Income Countries
Textbook for Public Health Practitioners
 , pp. 67 - 82
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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