How to Purchase Health Services During a Pandemic? Purchasing Priorities to Support the COVID-19 Response
As countries around the world respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, their focus is on organizing and reconfiguring health service provision, e.g. testing arrangements, home care and increases in Intensive Care Unit (ICU) bed capacity, in order to meet the changing...
How to budget for COVID-19 response? A quick scan of the budgetary mechanisms in the most affected developed countries.
The COVID-19 pandemic requires sufficient public funding to ensure a comprehensive response. The reprioritization of public spending to protect the economy and strengthen the health system's response requires timely action by government leaders and a favorable...
Priorities for health financing systems in response to COVID-19
To date, every country in the world has been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Action is urgently needed, but the response must be coherent. It will do no good if the urgency of the moment leads to chaos in the response of both countries and the international...
Priority health financing challenges to combat COVID-19
On April 02, 2020, the Health Financing Team of WHO shared views on Priorities for the Health Financing Response to COVID-19 that reflected collective effort and thinking of WHO's health financing experts working in WHO's Headquarters and Regional Offices. This...
Priorities for the Health Financing Response to COVID-19
By now, every country in the world is affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. The need to act is urgent, but the response must be coherent. It will be of little help if the urgency of the moment leads to chaos in how countries and the global community respond. This...
How do you budget for the COVID-19 response? A rapid analysis of budgetary mechanisms in heavily affected countries
Hélène Barroy (World Health Organization, Headquarters); Ding Wang (World Health Organization, Regional Office for the Americas); Claudia Pescetto (World Health Organization, Headquarters); Joseph Kutzin (World Health Organization, Headquarters). 1) Use existing...
How to budget for COVID-19 response? A rapid scan of budgetary mechanisms in highly affected countries
Hélène Barroy (World Health Organization, Headquarters); Ding Wang (World Health Organization, Western Pacific Regional Office); Claudia Pescetto (World Health Organization, Regional Office for the Americas); Joseph Kutzin (World Health Organization, Headquarters) 1....
Who is bearing the financial burden of non-communicable diseases in Mongolia?
Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) pose a formidable health and development challenge for low-and middle-income countries. However, translating this challenge into resource allocation is seriously constrained by a lack of country specific evidence on NCD financing and...