Christoph Kurowski
Biographic Data
| ID | 1743658 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christoph Kurowski |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christoph |
| FAMILY NAME | Kurowski |
| SIGNATURE | KUROWSKI C |
| AFFILIATIONS | World Bank |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Criteria for the procedural fairness of health financing decisions
Due to constraints on institutional capacity and financial resources, the road to universal health coverage (UHC) involves difficult policy choices. To assist with these choices, scholars and policy makers have done extensive work on criteria to assess the substantive fairness of health financing policies: their impact on the distribution of rights, duties, benefits and burdens on the path towards UHC. However, less attention has been paid to the…
New strides towards fair processes for financing universal health coverage
Fair processes in health financing decisions should not be undervalued or perceived as secondary to the goals of universal health coverage. By integrating fair-process principles and criteria into health financing decisions, countries can achieve more equitable outcomes, strengthen the legitimacy of the decision-making process, build trust in public institutions and promote long-term sustainability of reforms.\n\nProcedural fairness requires a co…
The Lancet Global Health Commission on financing primary health care
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought the need for well-functioning primary health care (PHC) into sharp focus. PHC is the best platform for providing basic health interventions (including effective management of non-communicable diseases) and essential public health functions. PHC is widely recognised as a key component of all high-performing health systems and is an essential foundation of universal health coverage. PHC was famously set as a global…
From slippery slopes to steep hills
Scaling up priority health interventions in Tanzania
The international community has set ambitious goals (Millennium Development Goals) to improve health in developing countries by 2015. Effective and often cheap interventions exist to achieve these goals. In the mainland of Tanzania, one of the poorest countries of the world, we explored the human resources challenges of expanding the coverage of such priority interventions. We projected human resources for health (HRH) availability using a standa…
Human resources for health
Scaling up priority health interventions in Tanzania
The international community has set ambitious goals (Millennium Development Goals) to improve health in developing countries by 2015. Effective and often cheap interventions exist to achieve these goals. In the mainland of Tanzania, one of the poorest countries of the world, we explored the human resources challenges of expanding the coverage of such priority interventions. We projected human resources for health (HRH) availability using a standa…
From slippery slopes to steep hills
Human resources for health
Scaling up priority health interventions in Tanzania
The international community has set ambitious goals (Millennium Development Goals) to improve health in developing countries by 2015. Effective and often cheap interventions exist to achieve these goals. In the mainland of Tanzania, one of the poorest countries of the world, we explored the human resources challenges of expanding the coverage of such priority interventions. We projected human resources for health (HRH) availability using a standa…
From slippery slopes to steep hills
The Lancet Global Health Commission on financing primary health care
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought the need for well-functioning primary health care (PHC) into sharp focus. PHC is the best platform for providing basic health interventions (including effective management of non-communicable diseases) and essential public health functions. PHC is widely recognised as a key component of all high-performing health systems and is an essential foundation of universal health coverage. PHC was famously set as a global…
Criteria for the procedural fairness of health financing decisions
Due to constraints on institutional capacity and financial resources, the road to universal health coverage (UHC) involves difficult policy choices. To assist with these choices, scholars and policy makers have done extensive work on criteria to assess the substantive fairness of health financing policies: their impact on the distribution of rights, duties, benefits and burdens on the path towards UHC. However, less attention has been paid to the…
New strides towards fair processes for financing universal health coverage
Fair processes in health financing decisions should not be undervalued or perceived as secondary to the goals of universal health coverage. By integrating fair-process principles and criteria into health financing decisions, countries can achieve more equitable outcomes, strengthen the legitimacy of the decision-making process, build trust in public institutions and promote long-term sustainability of reforms.\n\nProcedural fairness requires a co…
Economics (5 works) · Healthcare Systems and Reforms (5 works) · Business (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Economic growth (3 works) · Global Health Care Issues (3 works) · Global Maternal and Child Health (3 works) · Finance (2 works) · Global health (2 works) · Health care (2 works)