and provides the basis for long-term economic development
Health financing WHO
- Core function of health systems that can enable progress towards universal health
coverage by improving effective service coverage and financial protection.
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- Why is the health care system important?
- Promoting and maintain health
- Advertisement for example
- Preventing and managing disease
- Programs and screening, vaccination. lockdown for example
- Reducing unnecessary disability and premature death
- Achieving health equity for all
- What is UHC?
- Universal Health Cover
- For all individuals and communities receive the health services they
need without suffering financial hardship.
- Quality health services, health promotion, prevention, treatment,
rehabilitation, and palliative care.
- Access the services that address the most significant causes of
disease and death
- Quality of those services is good enough to improve the health
- Protecting people from the financial consequences of paying for health
services out of their own pockets reduces the risk that people will be
pushed into poverty.
- Does not mean free coverage for all possible health interventions.
- Healthy service delivery systems, the workforce, facilities and
communication networks, health technologies, information systems,
mechanisms.
- Ensures a progressive expansion of coverage of health services.
- Public health campaigns
- Steps towards equity, development priorities, and social inclusion and
cohesion.
- Effective Health System Governance for UHC
- 3 main bodies who interact
1. State (government organizations and agencies)
2. Health service providers (public and private clinical, para-medical,
and non-clinical)
3. The citizen who become service users
, - The major components of a health care
system
- People in need (health care
consumers)
- People who deliver health care
(health care providers)
- WHO Health Systems Framework
- 6 Building Blocks
1. Service delivery
- Must be available to you
2. Health workforce
3. Health information systems
4. Access to essential medicines
5. Financing
6. Leadership/ governance