Health Care Financing Guide No. 9
WHO is currently developing guidance to strengthen understanding of key issues relevant to health financing for universal health coverage (UHC). Speaking directly to decision-makers and those who advise them, the Guide summarizes lessons learned from reform experiences around the world in a question-and-answer format. These lessons are not a specific template or cookbook: countries are different, and each health financing reform should be “native” and adapted to local history and current context. Lessons are more like principles or signposts – to provide direction for effective reforms and to support periodic assessment of progress.
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The document is organized in a question and answer format to help answer specific questions in a concise and reader-friendly manner. It is organized into three main sections.
- Section I addresses important issues and cross-cutting policy challenges related to the UNHCR and approaches to health financing reform.
- Section II presents more detailed questions and answers on specific health financing functions and aspects of reform: revenue raising, pooling, benefit design and rationing, and strategic purchasing, as well as key implementation issues related to public financial management (PFM) and political economy.
- Section III summarizes previous lessons learned and sets out the guiding principles for OPC financing.
