A Financing Strategy to Expand Surgical Health Care.

ABSTRACT: Despite an evolving need to provide surgical health care globally, few health systems, particularly in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs), can sufficiently provide such care. The vast majority of the world's people-an estimated 5 billion-are unable to access safe and affordable surgical health care when they need it. This is a significant concern for global public health because the demand for these services is rising with the epidemiological and demographic transitions occurring worldwide. A principal driver of weak surgical health care services is a lack of adequate health system financing for surgical health care. This article examines the financing of surgical health care by analyzing global trends in health system financing, approaches to expand fiscal space for health, an

SUBMITTER: Jumbam DT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10285720 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature