Crisis or opportunity? Health financing in times of uncertainty: Country profiles from the SEA Region.

This report, developed during the COVID-19 outbreak in 2020, provides a comprehensive, updated overview of health expenditure and health financing systems in Member States of the WHO SEA Region during the period 2008–2018. This report helps establish a benchmark on how SEA Region countries were placed before the onset of the COVID-19 crisis and their initial responses into the pandemic. Future analyses will help assess how countries may have used the opportunities created by the pandemic to reform health financing in the Region.

Publication Year:

2021

Publisher

SPARC

Author:

WHO
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A message from the partners of the Strategic Purchasing Africa Resource Center (SPARC)

Since 2018, The Strategic Purchasing Africa Resource Center (SPARC) has been a unique and significant force in supporting countries within Sub-Sahara Africa (SSA) in crucial areas of strategic health purchasing (SHP), Healthcare Financing as they make progress towards the realization of Universal Health Coverage (UHC) goals. This initiative, a collaboration between Amref Health Africa and Results for Development (R4D), has made expertise in these areas more accessible and has been instrumental in the progress of the target countries. The initiative was designed to advance policy discussions and actions that strengthen the application of strategic health purchasing to strengthen African health systems and support countries as they address foundational reforms…