Fair Financing for Universal Health Coverage (UHC)
The project addresses procedural fairness in all areas of health financing for universal health coverage (UHC).
Om prosjektet
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Prosjektperiode: 01.2020 - 31.12.2022 (Aktivt)
- Koordinerende institutt: Bergen Centre for Ethics and Priority Setting
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Prosjektleder:
- Unni Gopinathan
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Prosjektmedarbeidere:
- Elina Dale
- Espen Movik
- Steve French
- Trygve Ottersen
Sammendrag
The project’s primary objective is to set of criteria that can be used to examine, reform and build fair processes for decision making in health financing and offer options for institutional arrangements that can be implemented to strengthen such processes across revenue generation, pooling and purchasing.
The project’s main outputs will provide country policy makers, civil society stakeholders, and health partners with guidance that support them in improving the fairness and legitimacy of decision-making processes in health financing.
Through case studies of implementation in real-world decision situations in health financing, this project is designed to assist policymakers, policy advisors and civil society stakeholders in identifying institutional gaps that prevent fair processes in health financing for UHC and provide options for designing such processes.
Case studies
| Country | Decision |
| India (Kerala) | Financing a new model for primary care delivery |
| Mexico | Introducing a tax on sugar-sweetened beverages |
| South Africa | Introducing a tax on sugar-sweetened beverages |
| Tanzania | Increasing the size of the community health fund (CHF) pools from district to regional level and harmonisation of provider payment methods and benefits across CHFs |
| Thailand | Inclusion of diagnostics and treatments for 24 rare diseases in the UHC scheme |
| The Gambia | Decisions about the types of taxes and setting of contribution and ce payment rates to finance a new health insurance scheme. |
| Ukraine | Funding the programme of medical guarantees through general taxation |
| United Kingdom | Decision-making about covid-19 vaccines |
Partners
Norwegian Institute of Public Health
The World Bank
The World Health Organization
Bergen Centre for Ethics and Priority Setting