Procedural fairness and the resilience of health financing reforms in Ukraine.

ABSTRACT: In 2017, Ukraine's Parliament passed legislation establishing a single health benefit package for the entire population called the Programme of Medical Guarantees,‎ financed through general taxes and administered by a single national purchasing agency. This legislation was in line with key principles for financing universal health coverage. However, health professionals and some policymakers have been critical of elements of the reform, including its reliance on general taxes as the source of funding. Using qualitative methods and drawing on deliberative democratic theory and criteria for procedural fairness, this study argues that the acceptance and sustainability of these reforms could have been strengthened by making the decision-making process fairer. It suggests that three factors lim

SUBMITTER: Dzhygyr Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10645049 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature