Designing health financing policy towards universal coverage

Both design catastrophic financial burdens that sign of health services benefit packages and implementation of an adequate push them into poverty.4 Every year, and provider payment mechanisms health financing system are essential in approximately 44 million households are key instruments in the efficient use the pursuit of universal coverage, i.e. [...] The potential essential health services and interven- individuals, face catastrophic health-care contributions of health prevention and tions provided at a cost affordable for expenditures; of these, about 25 mil- health promotion to overall system all. [...] The of access and financial risk protection; 100 million people are pushed into role of priority programmes such as this health policy goal clearly imposes poverty by these costs. [...] November 2008 will examine health programmes can be integrated in exist- In May 2005, the World Health financing policy and its linkage to the ing health financing systems or whether Assembly endorsed Resolution goal of universal coverage. [...] We intend to first present a tain analytical papers, policy-oriented access to needed health interventions quantitative overview of health funding studies and country-level lessons on the without the risk of financial catas- levels and sources worldwide; this will expansion of health financing schemes trophe.