Health Financing
Health financing is a core function of health systems that can enable progress towards universal health coverage by improving effective service coverage and financial protection. Today, millions of people do not access services due to the cost. Many others receive poor quality of services even when they pay out-of-pocket. Carefully designed and implemented health financing policies can help to address these issues. For example, contracting and payment arrangements can incentivize care coordination and improved quality of care; sufficient and timely disbursement of funds to providers can help to ensure adequate staffing and medicines to treat patients.
There are three main areas under this cluster:
- Health financing policy
- Health financing diagnostics
- Health expenditure tracking
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Publications
All →Global report on the use of sugar-sweetened beverage taxes, 2025
This report provides a global assessment of taxes applied to sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs). It describes and qualitatively compares their design and...
Global report on the use of alcohol taxes, 2025
This report provides an assessment of taxes applied to alcoholic beverages at the global level. It qualitatively compares their design and provides estimates...
Integrating community health workers into health systems: a step-by-step policy implementation guide
This guide presents steps that policy-makers, planners, managers and their partners should undertake when considering a national or subnational policy...
Lessons from case studies of social participation and its role in the pandemic response in the WHO South-East...
Member States of WHO South-East Asia Region continue to strengthen social participation in health, as demonstrated by case studies from Bangladesh, India...
WHO technical manual on tobacco tax policy and administration
This WHO technical manual on tobacco tax policy and administration builds upon the 2010 WHO technical manual on tobacco tax administration by further detailing...
Responding to the health financing emergency: immediate measures and longer-term shifts
This guidance paper provides a set of health financing-related actions and analytics for countries to consider as they respond to rapid changes in funding...
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Exploring the effects of digital technologies in health financing for universal health coverage: a synthesis...
Health Financing Progress Matrix assessment: Sierra Leone 2021
The WHO has developed a Health Financing Progress Matrix, for countries to assess how far they have come in preparing their health financing systems to...
Making progress towards universal health coverage through health financing reforms
In order to setup the health financing system as a solid foundation for progress towards Universal Health Care in Sierra Leone, the Ministry of Health...
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