Health care financing is key in defining interactions between providers and the general population. It determines who is required to pay for care, how much they pay, and what types of services patients can receive. It also helps shape markets for health service providers and innovations in service delivery, pharmaceuticals and medical devices. Paying for Health brings together insights from over 50 global experts to provide a vital analysis of health care financing around the world, explaining issues related to funding both health and social care. It explores key aspects of health financing, delving into critical policy questions and examining strategies that shape sustainable, effective health systems. Offering real-world examples and evidence-based insights, this essential volume equips policymakers, researchers, and health leaders with the tools to design financing systems that drive progress now and in the future towards universal health coverage. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Health care financing is key in defining interactions between providers and the general population. It determines who is required to pay for care, how much they pay, and what types of services patients can receive. It also helps shape markets for health service providers and innovations in service delivery, pharmaceuticals and medical devices. Paying for Health brings together insights from over 50 global experts to provide a vital analysis of health care financing around the world, explaining issues related to funding both health and social care. It explores key aspects of health financing, delving into critical policy questions and examining strategies that shape sustainable, effective health systems. Offering real-world examples and evidence-based insights, this essential volume equips policymakers, researchers, and health leaders with the tools to design financing systems that drive progress now and in the future towards universal health coverage. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
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Introduction; Section 1. Revenue raising: 1.1 General taxation and social health insurance Ajay Tandon, Christoph Kurowski and David B. Evans; 1.2 Community-based health insurance Lucy Kanya, Manuela De Allegri and Valéry Ridde; 1.3 Voluntary health insurance Anna Sagan, Sarah Thomson; 1.4 Official development assistance for health Azusa Sato; Section 2. Pooling resources and defining benefits: 2.1 Approaches to risk pooling Sophie Witter, Joseph Kutzin and Susan Sparkes; 2.2 Setting a health benefits package Michael Drummond, Aleksandra Torbica and Jonas Schreyögg; 2.3 Decommissioning/disinvestment: reducing the provision of low-value care Michael Anderson, Humza Malik and Elias Mossialos; 2.4 User charges Jonathan Cylus, Riya Doshi, Sarah Thomson and Tamás Evetovits; 2.5 Long-term care: its financing and provision Tiago Cravo Oliveira Hashiguchi, Ana Llena-Nozal, Michael Mueller, José Carlos Ortega Regalado, Eileen Rocard and Francesca Colombo; Section 3. Commissioning and purchasing: 3.1 Paying for primary care Anne Sophie Oxholm and Anthony Scott; 3.2 Methods for paying hospitals Stephen Duckett, Andrew Street and Chris Walters; 3.3 Informal payments in health care Sara Allin, Ilias Kyriopoulos and Iva Parvanova; 3.4 Paying for medicines Nicole Mauer, Daniela Moye Holz, Sabine Vogler and Dimitra Panteli; 3.5 Paying for integrated care Søren Rud Kristensen, Ewout van Ginneken andMatthew Sutton; 3.6 Balancing incentives to promote quality of care and improve long-term care Ruth Waitzberg and Sharona Tsadok Rosenbluth; 3.7 From vertical to horizontal priority-setting: funding and procurement mechanisms Ranjeeta Thomas and Kalipso Chalkidou; 3.8 Funding pandemic preparedness Susan Sparkes, Andrew Mirelman, Alexandra Earle, Ankur Rakesh and Jonathan Abrahams; 3.9 Antibiotics as global public goods Matthew Renwick; 3.10 Financing innovation for neglected diseases Mohamed Gad, Marisa Miraldo and Mujaheed Shaikh.
