Fwd: [GAVI CSO] Handbook on health financing for CSO
Hermengild Mayunga
From: MARCOS, Liliana Barba <mar...@who.int>
Date: Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 3:05 PM
Subject: [GAVI CSO] Handbook on health financing for CSO
To: "gavi-cso-c...@googlegroups.com" <gavi-cso-c...@googlegroups.com>
Dear all,
WHO is happy to share with you the handbook ‘Arguing for UHC', made to support CSOs' advocacy work on health financing for universal health coverage. Please feel free to share it broadly.
Arguing for Universal Health Coverage
Because progress towards Universal Health Coverage (UHC) involves a range of complex technical challenges, it is easy to lose sight of the fact that moving toward UHC is a political process that involves negotiation between different interest groups in society over the allocation of health benefits and who should pay for these benefits. Over recent decades, civil society organizations have frequently played a crucial role in representing the views of the poor and the vulnerable in these negotiations, pushing for a more equitable distribution of both the responsibility for funding the system and the benefits received.
To ensure a more equitable health funding it is essential to increase government health expenditure, moving from voluntary contributions (out of pocket payments, voluntary insurances...) to compulsory pooling systems (general taxation, social security...), avoiding fragmentation and promoting efficiency.
'Arguing for Universal Health Coverage' includes basic principles on health financing, country examples and evidence-based arguments to support Civil Society Organizations advocating for health funding policies that promote equity, efficiency and effectiveness, and ensure that the rights of the most vulnerable are not forgotten.
Available at
English: http://www.who.int/health_financing/UHC_ENvs_BD.PDF?ua=1
French: http://www.who.int/health_financing/UHC_FRvs1.pdf?ua=1
Spanish: http://www.who.int/health_financing/UHC_SPvs1.pdf?ua=1
Any comment or questions at jean...@who.int or mar...@who.int.
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