{"id":987657392,"date":"2019-09-23T02:55:57","date_gmt":"2019-09-23T01:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/news\/financing-universal-health-coverage-dos-and-donts\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T14:24:19","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T13:24:19","slug":"financing-universal-health-coverage-dos-and-donts","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/news\/financing-universal-health-coverage-dos-and-donts\/","title":{"rendered":"Financing universal health coverage: Do&#8217;s and don&#8217;ts"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<h3>Guidance note on health financing n\u00b0 9<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The WHO is currently developing a <a href=\"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/node\/8598\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">guidance note <\/a>on the key issues surrounding health financing in the context of universal health coverage (UHC). Aimed directly at decision-makers and those who advise them, it synthesizes the lessons learned from reform experiences around the world in a question-and-answer format. The lessons don&#8217;t constitute a specific model or recipe book: countries are different, and each healthcare financing reform must be country-specific, adapted to local history and the current context. Lessons are more like principles or signposts &#8211; to point the way to effective reforms, and to support periodic assessments of progress.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the development and finalization of the <a href=\"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/node\/8598\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">document<\/a>, the WHO <a href=\"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/node\/8598\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> health financing team is seeking feedback from decision-makers and experts in the field <\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p>To comment on the <a href=\"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/node\/8598\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">guidance note <\/a>, please use the <u><\/p>\n<p>  <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/1i9ZL7M_SkxdsMKPsGX7JC0YstBsMNs-QPZ12tpvCOeE\/edit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">online form<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/u>.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/node\/8598\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">document<\/a> is structured in question-and-answer format to answer specific questions in a brief, user-friendly way. It has three main sections.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Section I examines important issues and cross-cutting policy concerns related to universal health and approaches to health financing reform.<\/li>\n<li>Section II presents more detailed questions and answers on specific health financing functions and aspects of reform: revenue collection, pooling, benefit design and rationing, and strategic purchasing, as well as fundamental implementation issues related to public financial management and political economy.<\/li>\n<li>Section III summarizes the above lessons into guiding principles for financing universal public health.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guidance note on health financing n\u00b0 9 The WHO is currently developing a guidance note on the key issues surrounding health financing in the context of universal health coverage (UHC). Aimed directly at decision-makers and those who advise them, it synthesizes the lessons learned from reform experiences around the world in a question-and-answer format. The&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":848,"featured_media":987532573,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[170],"tags":[119,128,129,131,133],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987657392"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987657392"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987657392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":987777690,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987657392\/revisions\/987777690"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/987532573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987657392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987657392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987657392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}