HEALTHCARE FINANCING

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HEALTHCARE FINANCING

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. Many others receive poor quality of services even when they pay out-of-pocket. Carefully designed and implemented health financing policies can help to address these issues. For example, contracting and payment arrangements can incentivize care coordination and improved quality of care; sufficient and timely disbursement of funds to providers can help to ensure adequate staffing and medicines to treat patients HEALTHCARE FINANCING.

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WHO’s approach to health financing focuses on core functions:

  • revenue raising (sources of funds, including government budgets, compulsory or voluntary prepaid insurance schemes, direct out-of-pocket payments by users, and external aid)
  • pooling of funds (the accumulation of prepaid funds on behalf of some or all of the population)
  • purchasing of services (the payment or allocation of resources to health service providers)

In addition, all countries have policies on which services the population is entitled to, even if not explicitly stated by government; by extension those services not covered, are usually paid for by patients (sometimes called co-payments)HEALTHCARE FINANCING.

designed and implemented health financing policies can help to address these issues. For example, contracting and payment arrangements can incentivize care coordination and improved quality of care; sufficient and timely disbursement of funds to providers can help to ensure adequate staffing and medicines to treat patients.

WHO’s approach to health financing focuses on core functions:

  • revenue raising (sources of funds, including government budgets, compulsory or voluntary prepaid insurance schemes, direct out-of-pocket payments by users, and external aid)
  • pooling of funds (the accumulation of prepaid funds on behalf of some or all of the population)
  • purchasing of services (the payment or allocation of resources to health service providers)HEALTHCARE FINANCING

In addition, all countries have policies on which services the population is entitled to, even if not explicitly stated by government; by extension those services not covered, are usually paid for by patients (sometimes called co-payments).