{"id":987657397,"date":"2019-09-23T02:55:57","date_gmt":"2019-09-23T01:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/news\/financing-universal-health-coverage-before-and-after\/"},"modified":"2019-09-23T02:55:57","modified_gmt":"2019-09-23T01:55:57","slug":"financing-universal-health-coverage-before-and-after","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/news\/financing-universal-health-coverage-before-and-after\/","title":{"rendered":"Financing Universal Health Coverage: Before and After"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<h3>Health Care Financing Guide No. 9<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>WHO is currently developing <a href=\"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/node\/8598\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">guidance <\/a>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 <a href=\"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/node\/8598\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Guide <\/a>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 &#8220;native&#8221; and adapted to local history and current context. Lessons are more like principles or signposts &#8211; to provide direction for effective reforms and to support periodic assessment of progress.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the further development and finalization of the <a href=\"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/node\/8598\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">document<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/node\/8598\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> WHO health financing team is seeking feedback from policy makers and experts in the field <\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p>To leave feedback on the <a href=\"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/node\/8598\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Guide <\/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 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.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Section I addresses important issues and cross-cutting policy challenges related to the UNHCR 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 raising, pooling, benefit design and rationing, and strategic purchasing, as well as key implementation issues related to public financial management (PFM) and political economy.<\/li>\n<li>Section III summarizes previous lessons learned and sets out the guiding principles for OPC financing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#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\/987657397"}],"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=987657397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987657397\/revisions"}],"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=987657397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987657397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987657397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}