Good Practices in Health Financing : Lessons from Reforms in Low and Middle-Income Countries
This volume focuses on nine countries that have completed, or are well along in the process of carrying out, major health financing reforms. These countries have significantly expanded their people's health care coverage or maintained such cov...
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| Language: | English en_US |
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Washington, DC : World Bank
2012
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2008/01/9660400/good-practices-health-financing-lessons-reforms-low-middle-income-countries http://hdl.handle.net/10986/6442 |
| Summary: | This volume focuses on nine countries
that have completed, or are well along in the process of
carrying out, major health financing reforms. These
countries have significantly expanded their people's
health care coverage or maintained such coverage after
prolonged political or economic shocks. In doing so, this
report seeks to expand the evidence base on good performance
in health financing reforms in low- and middle-income
countries. The countries chosen for the study were Chile,
Colombia, Costa Rica, Estonia, the Kyrgyz Republic, Sri
Lanka, Thailand, Tunisia, and Vietnam. With health at the
center of global development policy on humanitarian as well
as economic and health security grounds, the international
community and developing countries are closely focused on
scaling up health systems to meet the Millennium Development
Goals (MDGs), improving financial protection, and ensuring
long-term financing to sustain these gains. With the scaling
up of aid, both donors and countries have come to realize
that money alone cannot buy health gains or prevent
impoverishment due to catastrophic medical bills. This
realization has sent policy makers looking for reliable
evidence about what works and what does not, but they have
found little to guide their search. |
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