From Universal Health Coverage services packages to budget ...

Essential packages of health services (EPHS) potentially contribute to universal health coverage (UHC) financing through several pathways.

A new centrally sponsored scheme, the Pradhan Mantri Jan Aarogya Yojana, cofinanced by both the central and state governments, provides government-sponsored ...

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It is found that using EPHS to directly leverage funds for health has rarely been effective, and packages need to translate into adequate public financing ...

A Collaborative Agenda: Making Public Budgets Work Better for UHC

Effective health financing policy is critical for supporting country movement toward Universal health coverage (UHC). Sustaining this progress requires that ...

The Use of Economic Evaluation Tools in Essential Health Benefits ...

Universal health coverage (UHC) means the provision of quality services that meet the needs of populations without risking financial impoverishment in the ...

how much will universal health coverage cost? - PMC

In striving to accelerate progress towards UHC, tough policy choices need to be made on how services are provided, which levels of the health-care system should ...

Health Benefits Packages | Center For Global Development

For budget-constrained countries aspiring to universal health coverage, an explicit benefits package that defines the services that can and can't be ...

Universal Health Coverage Study Series (UNICO) - World Bank

Each year, close to 100 million people are being pushed into extreme poverty because of health expenses, and 800 million spend more than ten percent of their ...

Budgeting challenges on the path towards universal health coverage

The government intends to finance 100% of the health insurance premiums for the poorest (estimated 1,895,810 beneficiaries), and 40% of the ...

Universal health coverage (UHC) - World Health Organization (WHO)

Improvements to health services coverage have stagnated since 2015, and the proportion of the population that faced catastrophic levels of out- ...

Universal Health Coverage (UHC) - NCD Alliance

It has the potential to greatly improve global health and reduce poverty, but it can only be achieved if UHC health benefit packages are fully funded, leaving ...

WHO EMRO | About the UHC priority benefits package (PBP)

A universal health coverage-priority benefits package (UHC-PBP) is a set of evidence-informed prioritized health interventions, services and programmes, ...

Universal Health Coverage Overview - World Bank

The goal of Universal Health Coverage (UHC) is to ensure everyone receives the health services they need without facing financial hardship.

Universal Health Coverage and Immunization Financing

In these systems, immunization services are included in the benefits package and providers are paid to deliver those services. Vaccine procurement and other ...

Financing for Universal Health Coverage: Dos and Don'ts

service coverage through budget transfers to cover the poor. Another is Thailand's launch of its budget-funded universal coverage scheme. • Strengthened ...

Universal Health Coverage and Essential Packages of Care | DCP3

Estimates of the EUHC and HPP costs and mortality consequences lead to a discussion of measures that improve the uptake and quality of health services and some ...

Financing universal health coverage in low-income countries

Yet the evidence shows that even a basic healthcare system requires around $100 per person per year to cover essential services. The third edition of the ...

How Universal Health Coverage Can Increase Access to Sexual ...

Ghana's National Health Insurance Scheme was introduced in 2003. Over the past 20 years, SRH services have gradually been included in the ...

Using costing to facilitate policy making towards Universal Health ...

As countries progress towards universal health coverage. (UHC), they frequently develop explicit packages of health services compatible with UHC ...

Designing US health insurance from scratch: A proposal for ...

The universal coverage would be provided automatically and for free—without any patient fees—but it would be quite basic, similar to what ...