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Trends in future health financing and coverage: future health spending and universal health coverage in 188 countries, 2016–40 [PDF]

open access: yesLancet, The, 2018
Background Achieving universal health coverage (UHC) requires health financing systems that provide prepaid pooled resources for key health services without placing undue financial stress on households.
Joseph L Dieleman   +2 more
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Financing for health in India

BMJ, 2014
Financing is a crucial determinant of providing primary healthcare.1 Stenberg and colleagues2 suggested that low income countries need to spend $54 (Rs3240; £32; €39) per capita for basic healthcare services, whereas the average actual per capita health expenditure in these countries is only $27.
Mongjam Meghachandra, Singh   +2 more
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Health Financing

2017
As the world moves from vertical programs to Universal Health Coverage, governments must address health financing to develop systems. This chapter focuses on the financing of health care in impoverished countries. Health care is funded by a mix of financing—government expenditure, donor financing, out-of-pocket expenditures, and health insurance.
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Finance and Health

2019
The business of health care is currently undergoing a profound transformation. Global finance is forcing transformation of the public policies as well as of the private business of health care. Key to this strategic leverage is financialisation of the personal body.
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Health Care Financing in China

Medical Care, 1976
Today's China, still a developing country with per capita health expenditure of 50 cents to one dollar (U.S.), has established a complex network of health facilities and well-distributed health personnel through the efforts of the existing political structure.
C P, Wen, C W, Hays
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Financing the Health Care of the Aged

The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 1983
The Medicare and Medicaid programs, which were enacted through the 1965 amendments to the Social Security Act, placed the federal government in the central role of assuring access of the aged and the poor to needed medical care. In this article the trends in the sources of financing medical care services for the aged are examined.
J R, Lave, H A, Silverman
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The Counterrevolution in Health Care Financing

New England Journal of Medicine, 1987
The revolution in heath care financing is transforming American medicine. Medicare's prospective payment system based on diagnosis-related groups, the spread of health maintenance and preferred-provider organizations, the increased use of deductibles and co-payments, and a wide variety of statewide cost-containment programs have dramatically altered ...
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Financing and Home Health Agencies

Home Health Care Services Quarterly, 1990
Home health agencies are examined with reference to changes that have occurred in their financing as a result of DRGs. Comparisons are made based on organizational affiliation and findings indicate agencies that become affiliated with larger and more complex organizations are more frequently proprietary agencies.
M, Rappaport, J B, Wood
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Innovative financing of health care

BMJ, 2009
With national budgets stretched, countries are trying to find new ways to fund aid to developing countries, Tatum Anderson ...
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