Health financing policies during the COVID-19 pandemic and implications for universal health care: a case study of 15 countries.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The COVID-19 pandemic was a health emergency requiring rapid fiscal resource mobilisation to support national responses. The use of effective health financing mechanisms and policies, or lack thereof, affected the impact of the pandemic on the population, particularly vulnerable groups and individuals. We provide an overview and illustrative examples of health financing policies adopted in 15 countries during the pandemic, develop a framework for resilient health financing, and use this pandemic to argue a case to move towards universal health coverage (UHC).

Methods

In this case study, we examined the national health financing policy responses of 15 countries, which were purposefully selected countries to represent all WHO regions and have a range of income level

SUBMITTER: De Foo C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10664823 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature