Thematic guide: Health Financing
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WHO
- Department of Health Systems Financing (HSF)
www.who.int/healthsystems/topics/financing
Key resources
- WHO: Health financing documentation
www.who.int/health_financing/documents - Eldis resource guide: Health sector financing
www.eldis.org/go/topics/resource-guides - WHO: National health accounts
www.who.int/nha - WHO: CHOICE = Choosing Interventions that are Cost Effective
www.who.int/choice - WBI learning program: Health Sector Reform and Sustainable Financing
http://wbi.worldbank.org/wbi/
Global health financing initiatives and partnerships
- Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
www.theglobalfund.org/en - UNITAID
www.unitaid.eu
Alternative concepts and campaigns
- Financial transaction tax (tobin tax)
http://en.wikipedia.org - Robin Hood Tax
"A tiny tax on bankers that would give billions to tackle poverty and climate change, here and abroad."
http://robinhoodtax.org.uk - From the Global AIDS Response towards Global Health?
Gorik Ooms proposes a Global Health Fund
www.internationalhealthpartnership.net/pdf - Performance-based financing: donor fad or catalyst towards health-care reform?
Bruno Meessen et al. in: WHO Bulletin
http://bit.ly/fMRdmC - Social insecurity. The financialisation of healthcare and pensions in developing countries
Bretton Woods Project 2010
http://bit.ly/hLVh8O
Basics and background
- Sustainable health financing, universal coverage and social health insurance
World Health Assembly Resolution 58.33 (2005)
www.who.int/health_financing/documents - Who pays for health systems?
Chapter 5 in the World Health Report 2000
www.who.int/health_financing/documents
Key papers
- From the Global AIDS Response towards Global Health? A discussion paper
Gorik Ooms discusses the idea of a Global Health Fund (2009, pdf)
http://bit.ly/dni5qc - The 'diagonal' approach to Global Fund financing: a cure for the broader malaise of health systems?
G Ooms et al. in: Globalization and Health, 2008 (pdf)
www.globalizationandhealth.com - Designing health financing policy towards universal coverage
Guy Carrin et al. in: WHO Bulletin (2007)
http://www.who.int/bulletin
