首页|Financing health for all: Francis Omaswa argues that universal health coverage is is something that all nations can achieve
Financing health for all: Francis Omaswa argues that universal health coverage is is something that all nations can achieve
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Budget negotiations with national parliaments are going on right now in a number of African countries. Difficult decisions are being made on which aspects of health budgets should be prioritised for funding. This issue of the AHJ has a focus on health financing, which gives us an opportunity to contribute to these budget discussions. Health financing is "the raising, pooling and spending of financial resources with the primary intention of improving health". Its sources are general tax, donor aid, deficit funding (or borrowing), ear-marked taxes, and social and private health insurance. This should exclude out-of-pocket spending by individuals usually at the point of receiving health care. Expenditures are made in health facilities, on community and out-reach services, pharmacies, drug shops, sanitation, nutrition, training and research. From the origins and evolution of health financing, many lessons have been learned. Today, health financing remains the most intractable challenge for the health and development globally. Indeed, some have argued that Universal Health Coverage (UHC) in poor countries cannot be funded internally.
Francis Omaswa
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African Centre for Global Health and Social Transformation and Publisher of Africa Health Journal.
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