Redistribution and the health financing transition

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ID19550879
AutoresAjay Tandon (0000-0003-0578-7490, World Bank Group), K Srinath Reddy (0000-0003-3416-3548, Public Health Foundation of India)
Año2021
Volumen11
Páginas16002-16002
Fecha de publicación2021-11-20
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Global Health (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 2047-2978 • E-ISSN: 2047-2986
EditorialInternational Global Health Society (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.7189/jogh.11.16001
PMID34912554
OpenAlexW4200113292
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas4
Referencias citadas10

To leverage a country's health financing transition for UHC, mechanisms should be introduced for: (i) ensuring that benefit entitlements are explicit and intertemporally commensurate with levels of public financing; (ii) fragmentation in pooling mechanisms is reduced to facilitate cross-subsidization without jeopardizing equity; (iii) levels of OOP and complementary sources of financing are nudged towards the well-off until core levels of public financing are adequate to provide similar levels of coverage for all; and (v) that purchasing of services is done in ways that helps reduce geographic- and income-related inequities in access and supply of quality health services. This implies careful policy choices need to be made, ones that require looking beyond the simplistic dichotomy between OOP and public sources of financing for UHC at the aggregate level to more nuanced and disaggregated assessments of the organization, use, and net fiscal incidence of financing and expenditures

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