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Strengthening the health system response to COVID-19 – Recommendations for the WHO European Region

How to budget for COVID-19 response?
The early experience in countries with large-scale community transmission (China, Iran, Italy and Spain) shows that COVID-19 requires unprecedented mobilization of health systems. By acting urgently, countries that have not yet entered community transmission may have a narrow opportunity to slow transmission and prepare their health systems to mitigate the impact of the outbreak.

Publication Year:

2020

Publisher

World Health Organization

Author:

World Health Organization
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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…

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