Courses
Health Financing in MENA: Evidence, Policy, and Reform (EPR)
April 21st to 25th, 2024
In many low- and middle-income countries, progress toward universal health coverage (UHC) has been sluggish. While many factors cause the massive lags, health financing failures are especially damaging, because they affect all components of the health system. Insufficient resource mobilization impedes critical investments, limited prepayment and pooling hamper financial protection, and inadequate purchasing condemns health systems to use resources inefficiently and inequitably. Recognizing that no country will approach UHC without strong, sustainable health financing, sector reforms and Bank support increasingly addresses health financing bottlenecks. Health Financing Fundamentals offers counterparts who have had little exposure to health financing in the past the opportunity to master key concepts and policies and to gain skills in thinking critically about potential policy solutions for key health financing challenges. By the end of this experiential, problem-solving centered course, participants should have a firm grasp on core tenets of health financing.
