Health Systems Financing

Description:

Good health is essential to human welfare and to sustained economic and social development. WHO's Member States have set themselves the target of developing their health financing systems to ensure that all people can use health services, while being protected against financial hardship associated with paying for them. In this report, the World Health Organization maps out what countries can do to modify their financing systems so they can move more quickly towards this goal -- universal coverage -- and sustain the gains that have been achieved. - Back cover.

subjects: Chronic Disease,  Cost of Illness,  Health Priorities,  Periodicals,  Statistics,  World Health Organization,  World health,  Economics,  Health Services,  Health Services Accessibility,  Delivery of Health Care,  Medical economics,  Health Services Administration,  Health services accessibility