Trends in future health financing and coverage: future health spending and universal health coverage in 188 countries, 2016-40.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Achieving universal health coverage (UHC) requires health financing systems that provide prepaid pooled resources for key health services without placing undue financial stress on households. Understanding current and future trajectories of health financing is vital for progress towards UHC. We used historical health financing data for 188 countries from 1995 to 2015 to estimate future scenarios of health spending and pooled health spending through to 2040.

Methods

We extracted historical data on gross domestic product (GDP) and health spending for 188 countries from 1995 to 2015, and projected annual GDP, development assistance for health, and government, out-of-pocket, and prepaid private health spending from 2015 through to 2040 as a reference scenario. These e

SUBMITTER: Global Burden of Disease Health Financing Collaborator Network 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5946843 | biostudies-literature | 2018 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature