Health financing functions
All health financing systems, however organized, share three key health financing functions. These are:Revenue collection
Health financing functions
Follow the above links for more details and related documentsHow financial contributions to the health system are collected from different sources (more...);
Risk pooling
How these contributions are pooled so that the risk of having to pay for health care is not borne by each contributor individually (more...);
Purchasing
How these contributions are used to purchase effective health services (more...).
- Who pays for health systems?
Chapter 5 of the World Health Report 2000 gives an in-depth discussion of the three health financing functions
- Health financing mechanisms
Note that the health financing functions are also examined within the context of various financial risk protection mechanisms on this web site.
Further related links and documents
- Recent policies in health service provision: A broader path towards sustainable health care systems?
This article summarises recent innovative policies on improving service provision (please refer to chapter 2). - Financing health promotion
This discussion paper explores how health promotion can be integrated in health system financing schemes. The analysis is based on the health financing functions (revenue collection, pooling and purchasing) and includes examples from different countries. - Local factors influencing resource allocation to health under the decentralized planning process in Kerala, India
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