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Health systems financing

Policy

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WHO/Europe´s support for health financing policy in Member States is guided by:

  • a set of objectives derived from the health system goals presented in the world health report 2000, which provide the direction in which reforms should try to move the health system;
  • a conceptual framework for analysing health financing systems in functional terms, which provides for country-specific analysis of the existing system, the starting point for any reform, and
  • an analysis of how key contextual factors, particularly fiscal constraints, limit the extent to which a country can sustain achievement of its policy objectives, and may limit the range of policy options.

This approach is described in greater detail in the document “Health financing policy: a guide for decision-makers”, which updates a paper prepared for the 2006 WHO Regional Committee for Europe.

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