Health Systems Financing

By World Health Organization (WHO)

Subjects: Chronic disease, World Health, Health services, World Health Organization, Chronic Disease, Health Services, Global Health, Medical economics, Health Services Accessibility, Health priorities, Delivery of health care, Cost of illness, Health Services Administration, Cost of Illness, Health services accessibility, Health Priorities, Economics, Health services administration, Delivery of Health Care, World health organization, Periodicals, Statistics, World health

Description: Good health is essential to human welfare and to sustained economic and social development. WHO's Member States have set themselves the target of developing their health financing systems to ensure that all people can use health services, while being protected against financial hardship associated with paying for them. In this report, the World Health Organization maps out what countries can do to modify their financing systems so they can move more quickly towards this goal -- universal coverage -- and sustain the gains that have been achieved. - Back cover.