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Edited by
Jonathan Cylus ,
Rebecca Forman ,
Nathan Shuftan ,
Elias Mossialos  and
Peter C. Smith
Jonathan Cylus
Affiliation:
European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies
Rebecca Forman
Affiliation:
European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies
Nathan Shuftan
Affiliation:
Technische Universität Berlin
Elias Mossialos
Affiliation:
London School of Economics and Political Science
Peter C. Smith
Affiliation:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London

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Paying for Health
Learning from International Experience in Health Financing
 , pp. xviii - xix
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2026
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  1. 0.1.1Key challenges for the future in financing health systems for UHC

  2. 0.2.1What is UHC?

  3. 0.2.2Defining efficiency, equity and quality in health care and systems

  4. 1.1.1Parallel tax and SHI systems: India

  5. 1.1.2Strengthening the tax system: Georgia

  6. 1.3.1Medical savings accounts are inefficient, inequitable and do not provide sufficient financial protection

  7. 1.3.2France demonstrates how difficult it is to achieve high levels of population coverage for complementary VHI covering user charges

  8. 1.3.3VHI distorts the use of health system resources

  9. 2.1.1Retrospective risk adjustment

  10. 2.2.1Benefits of setting an explicit benefits package

  11. 2.5.1Personal budgets in the Netherlands

  12. 3.1.1The role of information technology and digital health infrastructure for primary care payment models

  13. 3.1.2Payment methods for community pharmacists as their role expands to a first-contact point with the health system

  14. 3.1.3Case study: the Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF)

  15. 3.3.1Adverse effects of informal payments on health systems

  16. 3.4.1Definition: intellectual property rights

  17. 3.4.2The role of public funding: COVID-19 vaccines and therapeutics

  18. 3.4.3Industry spending on lobbying, marketing and consolidation

  19. 3.4.4How do push and pull mechanisms work? Examples in the area of antimicrobial resistance (AMR)

  20. 3.4.5Addressing R&D shortages: repurposing of medicines

  21. 3.4.6What shapes manufacturers’ prices?

  22. 3.4.7Zolgensma® – worth the high price tag?

  23. 3.5.1Common payment mechanisms in health care systems

  24. 3.6.1Fragmentation within LTC financing systems

  25. 3.6.2Summary of potential market failures in LTC and possible policy tools to mitigate them

  26. 3.6.3Day care

  27. 3.6.4Other tools to incentivize quality of LTC

  28. 3.7.1Thailand’s UHC scheme

  29. 3.7.2Ghana’s National Health Insurance Scheme

  30. 3.8.1One Health approach

  31. 3.8.2Programme budgeting: Australia

  32. 3.8.3Pandemic Emergency Finance Facility (PEF)

  33. 3.10.1PDP case study: Medicines for Malaria Venture and Coartem

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