Health financing mechanisms
Health financing mechanisms are organisational options for a health financing system of how to offer financial risk protection to people against the costs of healthcare. These include tax-based financing, social health insurance, private health insurance and medical savings accounts.
Universal coverage of health care
An issue of paramount importance to policy-makers in a majority of the world's countries is how to ensure that all people have access to health care when they need it - i.e. how to achieve universal coverage of health care. The technical brief for policy-makers below summarises the main organisational options for reaching universal coverage.
- Achieving universal health coverage: developing the health financing system
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Designing health financing policy towards universal coverage
Guy Carrin, David Evans and Ke Xu (2007): in Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 85 (9): 652