Download or read book Assessing country health financing systems written by and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2020-12-18 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This document outlines the background to and design of the Health Financing Progress Matrix (HFPM), WHO’s standardized qualitative approach to assessing country health financing systems. Primarily qualitative in nature, but drawing on extensive quantitative indicators, the HFPM assesses a country’s health financing institutions, processes, policies and their implementation, against good practice in the context of universal health coverage (UHC). Benchmarks are defined in terms of nineteen desirable attributes, which crystallize evidence about what works in health financing in order to make progress to UHC. The paper also details a number of processes which govern the implementation of the HFPM in countries, to ensure the results are objective and credible. While health financing is only one of the core functions of a health system, it significantly influences both the extent to which the population can access health services, as well as the extent to which they face financial hardship in the process. Through a forward-looking design, the HFPM not only assesses the current situation in a country, but also makes clear recommendations of priority directions for policy and implementation, both accelerating progress towards UHC, and helping to build resilience across the health systems.
Download or read book The health financing progress matrix written by and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2020-12-21 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This document provides detailed advice in support of implementation of version 2.0 of the Health Financing Progress Matrix (HFPM) released in December 2020, detailed in Assessing country health financing systems: the health financing progress matrix. Geneva: World Health Organization; 2020. The HFPM is WHO’s standardized qualitative approach to assessing country health financing systems, and comprises two stages. Stage 1 provides a descriptive landscape of the different coverage schemes and programmes in the health system, including how the health budget is organized. Stage 2 comprises thirty-three questions which look in detail at the way health financing institutions and policies are organized, and how they are implemented. For each question the guide discusses why it is important to ask, and what progress looks like, together with country illustrations. Thoughts on information sources and quantitative indicators which can support the assessment are also provided.
Download or read book Health Financing Progress Matrix assessment Georgia 2023 written by World Health Organization and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2023-11-17 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report provides a concise summary of the Health Financing Progress Matrix assessment in Georgia, where WHO has a long engagement on health financing issues. The report was conducted using a highly participatory process, including robust discussion with the MoH. In addition to identifying strengths and weaknesses in Georgia’s health financing system, priority areas are highlighted in order to drive progress towards UHC. The latest data on key health expenditure, financial protection, and service coverage indicators are presented. The final report will be released with the date 2023. Detailed responses to individual questions are available on the WHO HFPM database of country assessments or upon request.
Download or read book Health Financing Progress Matrix assessment Ethiopia 2022 written by World Health Organization and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2023-02-03 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ethiopia implemented the Health Financing Progress Matrix, WHO’s standardized qualitative assessment of health financing systems, to contribute to the refinement of health financing policies and strategies with the aim of accelerating progress to UHC. A first assessment was initiated using version 1.0 in 2019, with subsequent updates based on version 2.0 released in December 2020. This summary report of findings and recommendations, highlights current areas of strength and weakness in Ethiopia’s health financing system, together with priority areas where shifts need to be made to accelerate progress to UHC.
Download or read book Health Financing Progress Matrix assessment Bangladesh 2021 written by World Health Organization and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2022-06-06 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Good Practices in Health Financing written by Pablo Gottret and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2008-06-20 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For humanitarian reasons and the concern for households' economic and health security, the health sector is at the center of global development policy. Developing countries and the international community are scaling up health systems to meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and are improving financial protection by securing long-term support for these gains. Yet money alone cannot buy health gains or prevent impoverishment due to catastrophic medical bills; well structured, results-based financing reforms are needed. Unfortunately, global evidence of successful health financing policies that can guide the reform effort is very limited and therefore the policy debate is often driven by ideological, one-size-fits-all solutions. Good Practices in Health Financing: Lessons from Reforms in Low- and Middle-Income Countries' attempts to begin to fill the void by systematically assessing health financing reforms in nine low- and middle-income countries that have managed to expand their health financing systems to both improve health status and protect against catastrophic medical expenses. The participating countries are: Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Estonia, the Kyrgyz Republic, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Tunisia, and Vietnam. The study seeks to identify common enabling factors of their good performance. While the findings for each country are important, collectively they send a clear message to the global community that more attention is needed to define good practice and then to evaluate and disseminate the global evidence base.
Download or read book Health financing progress matrix assessment Zambia 2024 written by World Health Organization and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2024-08-27 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report summarizes the findings of the Health Financing Progress Matrix assessment for Zambia. Recognizing the remarkable progress towards UHC made by the country over the past twenty years, the report also highlights weaknesses in the current health financing system and, extending from this, those priority issues to be addressed in order to further accelerate Zambia’s progress towards universal health coverage (UHC). Specifically, the report notes the importance of sustaining levels of public funding for health, progressively reducing reliance on external funding, and reinforcing the provision of free services in primary care facilities. Further recommendations include the need to accelerate the shift from passive to strategic purchasing, and institutionalizing shifts in the public financial management system to ensure that adequate operational funds reach frontline service providers in a timely fashion. Finally, the duplication in benefits across the budget-funded EPHS, the National Health Insurance Scheme, and some services provided through vertical disease programmes need to be addressed, for example through the establishment of a unified benefits framework. The latest information on Zambia’s performance in terms of UHC and key health expenditure indicators are also presented. This report is intended both to inform current health financing policy, and to provide a baseline for the future monitoring of Zambia’s progress in developing and implementing UHC-oriented health financing reforms.
Download or read book Vanuatu Health Financing Systems Assessment written by World Bank Group and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report identifies critical opportunities and constraints faced by the Vanuatu health system as it makes progress toward universal health coverage (UHC). Protecting the achievements that have been made over recent years, while continuing to improve a broader range of health outcomes, requires effective management of changes in financial and other institutional arrangements in the health sector. This health financing systems assessment (HFSA) provides context and emphasizes key issues and messages aimed at providing Ministry of Health (MoH) and partners with a platform to help with this transition. It builds upon other work that has been done in recent years on health in Vanuatu. The assessment begins with an overview of the prevailing economic and fiscal context and key health outcomes. It then overviews the country's health system - through its human, physical, and financial dimensions. Finally, it reviews health financing in some detail to identify trends across time; against regional benchmarks; and at both national and subnational and facility levels. The assessment concludes with a summary of policy options.
Download or read book An International Assessment of Health Care Financing written by David W. Dunlop and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: World Bank Discussion Paper No. 308. A major obstacle in creating secure banks in transitional economies is the absence of political will and the lack of traditions and techniques for governing and regulating financial intermediaries. This paper provides a comprehensive, annotated model contract for policymakers and bank executives to help them discipline troubled banks.
Download or read book Health Financing Progress Matrix assessment Mauritius 2023 written by World Health Organization and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2023-12-05 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Health Systems Financing written by World Health Organization and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2010 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This World Health Report was produced under the overall direction of Carissa Etienne ... and Anarfi Asamoa Baah ... The principal writers were David B. Evans ... [et al] -- t.p. verso.
Download or read book Vanuatu Health Financing Systems Assessment written by Weltbankgruppe and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report identifies critical opportunities and constraints faced by the Vanuatu health system as it makes progress toward universal health coverage (UHC). Protecting the achievements that have been made over recent years, while continuing to improve a broader range of health outcomes, requires effective management of changes in financial and other institutional arrangements in the health sector. This health financing systems assessment (HFSA) provides context and emphasizes key issues and messages aimed at providing Ministry of Health (MoH) and partners with a platform to help with this transition. It builds upon other work that has been done in recent years on health in Vanuatu. The assessment begins with an overview of the prevailing economic and fiscal context and key health outcomes. It then overviews the country's health system - through its human, physical, and financial dimensions. Finally, it reviews health financing in some detail to identify trends across time; against regional benchmarks; and at both national and subnational and facility levels. The assessment concludes with a summary of policy options.
Download or read book Fiscal Sustainability of Health Systems Bridging Health and Finance Perspectives written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2015-09-24 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The health systems we enjoy today, and expected medical advances in the future, will be difficult to finance from public resources without major reforms. Public health spending in OECD countries has grown rapidly over most of the last half century. These spending increases have contributed to ...
Download or read book Guidelines for Analysis of Health Sector Financing in Developing Countries written by Robert L. Robertson and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This manual is one in a series of methodological studies developed for the Office of International Health, U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, to foster health planning by host country personnel in less developed countries. It originally appeared in May, 1978 under the title "An Approach to the Study of Health Sector Financing in Developing Countries: A Manual." The present revised and updated version of the manual was completed in April, 1979. This manual presents an action-tested procedure for appraisal of health sector financing which may be used, with some local adaptations, to examine health sector financial resources. The guidance presented in the text of the manual, combined with the prototype data collection and tabulation arrangement in Appendix A, are sufficiently detailed to lead a host country health planner or financial specialist through the assessment process. For successful completion of such an evaluation, it is anticipated that a senior-level economist or public finance specialist would be available to assist the analyst, both in initial design and final interpretation of the results.
Download or read book Health Financing in Ghana written by George Schieber and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2012-08-14 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ghana is one of only several African countries to enact legislation and earmark financing for universal health insurance coverage for its entire population. Seven years into its implementation the Ghana National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) has made significant progress in transitioning to universal coverage, but faces significant fiscal and coverage challenges. This study reviews Ghana's health financing system with a special emphasis on its National Health Insurance Scheme. Such an assessment is important because Ghana is often considered a global 'good practice' in terms of earmarking significant amounts of its general revenues for health insurance coverage, providing formal coverage to its vulnerable population groups, and extending coverage by transitioning its existing community health insurance schemes into a national health insurance program. In addition to the global interest in the Ghana 'model', this review is timely in view of recent critiques of the system and questions about its financial sustainability. The study is also unique in terms of evaluating Ghana's NHIS in terms of basic health system goals of health outcomes, financial protection, consumer satisfaction, equity, efficiency, and financial sustainability. The strengths and weaknesses of Ghana's health financing system are assessed on the basis of these performance goals to provide the current health policy reform baseline. The assessment is also based on several new and updated sources of information on: total health spending, inputs, outcomes, household spending, and the macro economy. It also undertakes for the first time an extensive international benchmarking analysis; assesses the financial protection/equity of the system at both macro and micro levels; and, contains an extensive fiscal space analysis based on Ghana's new macroeconomic realities (i.e., the revaluation of Ghana's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) upward by some 60 percent in November 2010, making Ghana a lower middle income country). The study concludes with an assessment of potential structural and operational reform options to assure NHISs long-term efficacy and sustainability in the context of its future available fiscal space.
Download or read book Health Financing Policy written by Cheryl Cashin and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2016-02-24 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The global movement toward universal health coverage (UHC) is accompanied by requests for large increases in government health spending in some countries. This combined with the global economic situation and stagnant economic growth across many low- and middle-income countries make it more critical than ever to place health financing discussions firmly in the context of macroeconomic and fiscal realities. Unfortunately, there is often a disconnect in decision making, with key fiscal decisions made in the absence of a clear understanding on the one hand of the potential consequences for the health sector, and on the other, the consequences for the country’s macroeconomic and fiscal position of increasing or reallocating government spending. Constructive health financing policy dialogue aims to reach a common understanding between health sector leaders and central budget authorities about policy objectives for the health sector and the resources needed to achieve those objectives, how much priority will be given to health in the government budget, and how the health sector will be held accountable for using funds effectively. This common understanding should be built on a realistic picture of the country’s macroeconomic and fiscal context, the constraints and competing priorities in the budget-setting process. When ministries of health and ministries of finance have a common understanding of macroeconomic and fiscal constraints, discussions can focus productively on using funds within the potential health resource envelope in the most effective way to achieve health system objectives. This guidance note outlines the key components of the macroeconomic, fiscal, and public financial management context that need to be considered for an informed health financing discussion at the country level. The guidance note is organized around four sets of questions that are key to placing the health financing dialogue in the context of a country’s macroeconomic and fiscal context. Each section points to measures, resources, and analytical tools that are available to assist in answering these questions for a specific country. The guidance note draws on case studies from 11 countries moving toward or sustaining universal health coverage conducted as part of the Japan†“World Bank Partnership Program on UHC as well as from other country examples.
Download or read book Health System Efficiency written by Jonathan Cylus and published by Health Policy. This book was released on 2016-12-15 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book the authors explore the state of the art on efficiency measurement in health systems and international experts offer insights into the pitfalls and potential associated with various measurement techniques. The authors show that: - The core idea of efficiency is easy to understand in principle - maximizing valued outputs relative to inputs, but is often difficult to make operational in real-life situations - There have been numerous advances in data collection and availability, as well as innovative methodological approaches that give valuable insights into how efficiently health care is delivered - Our simple analytical framework can facilitate the development and interpretation of efficiency indicators.
