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Universal health coverage is about ensuring that all people have access to the health services they need while also ensuring that the use of these services does not expose the user to financial hardship.

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Despite progress in some countries, health related expenditures drive 150 million people into financial catastrophe annually.

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Increasing the use of evidence in the design and implementation of health financing reforms

This week in Geneva, the global community has gathered for the Sixty-sixth World Health Assembly. As we recently passed the 1000 day count down to the end of the current Millennium Development goals...

Equitable Health Financing Tool

Easily navigate the evidence on different health financing methods.

Featured Case Study

Korea, Rep.: National Health Insurance Program

Coverage Level: 50 million

Types of Benefits:

Comprehensive

Primary Source of Funding:

Payroll Tax

Provider Payment Mechanisms:

Fee-for-service

Headlines from Around the Globe

Universal Health Coverage: Global Voices

Citizens from Ghana, Kenya, Thailand, Argentina and Mexico answer the question, "Why Is Universal...

World Bank chief favours equitable models of health financing

(The Hindu) - World Bank President Jim Yong Kim on Tuesday said user charges on healthcare to poor...

World Bank calls for affordable health care services

(Ghana Business News) - The World Bank Group would help countries tackle two major challenges as...

Reps explain delay in passage of Health, Insurance Commission bills

(The Guardian - Nigeria) - THE House of Representatives is placing squarely on the shoulders of the...

World Bank Group President Urges Countries to Deliver Universal Health Coverage to Help End Poverty

(World Bank Group) - World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim called on countries gathered at the...

Raising and Spending Domestic Money for Health

Working Group Paper

In 2010 low income countries spent only $32 per capita on health including public and private spending and that received from external sources. But it is estimated that $60 per capita is required to provide a basic standard of health services to their populations. The nearly threefold rise in external funding for health since 2000 has not therefore been sufficient...

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UHC Forward: Towards Universal Health Coverage