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Analizar y superar las barreras de acceso para fortalecer la atención primaria de salud

Pan American Health Organization PAHO (2023) C_WHO

Este informe presenta los resultados de la colaboración entre la Organización Panamericana de la Salud y sus Estados Miembros para analizar las barreras de acceso a la atención primaria de salud, así como para formular opciones de políticas encaminadas a reducirlas y eliminarlas de manera progresiva. El primer capítulo presenta una caracterización de los sistemas de salud de la Región de las Américas y los desafíos para el acceso universal en el contexto de la pandemia de COVID-19. El segundo ofrece un marco metodológico y de análisis para el estudio de las barreras de acceso y la determinación de opciones de políticas. En los capítulos 3 a 6 se presentan estudios de casos centrados en las barreras que enfrentan los grupos en situación de mayor vulnerabilidad en el contexto y la trayectoria de distintas reformas de los sistemas de salud. A modo de conclusión, se presentan recomendaciones generales que permitirán promover la agenda aún inconclusa hacia el acceso universal a la salud y la cobertura universal de salud

Tags: salud primaria, métodos de barrera, sistema de salud,

Source: https://iris.paho.org/bitstream/handle/1

Towards UHC: thinking public

World Health Organisation (WHO) (2017) C_WHO

Past quantitative research on health financing has focused mostly on the level and distribution of total expenditure, with little emphasis on the specific role of public funds, despite their known importance for universal health coverage (UHC). Health Accounts data do not disaggregate public expenditure on health by source of funding. Achieving a better understanding of public financing for health in the context of the macro-fiscal and health financing environment is of fundamental importance to the development of future health financing policy, particularly in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs)

Tags: universal health coverage, UHC, public health, Health financing, health spending,

Source: https://apps.who.int/iris/rest/bitstream

World Health Organization WHO (2020) C_WHO

The 2020 Report analyzes global health spending for 190 countries from 2000 to 2018 and provides insights as to the health spending trajectory from the MDG era to the SDG era prior to the crisis of 2020. The report shows that global spending on health continually rose between 2000 and 2018 and reached US$ 8.3 trillion or 10% of global GDP. The data also show that out-of-pocket spending has remained high in low and lower-middle income countries, representing greater than 40% of total health spending in 2018. We also report and summarize the data on expenditures for PHC, as well as by disease and intervention, including for immunization. The report also analyzes the available data on budget allocation in response to the COVID-19 crisis. In addition, we combine World Bank/IMF projections of the macroeconomic and fiscal impact of the crisis with an analysis of the historical determinants of health spending patterns and UHC indicators, and based on this, we draw out the likely implications of 2020 for future health spending, highlighting key policy and monitoring concerns

Tags: health care financing, SDGs, UHC, universal health care, global health, global health financing,

Source: https://apps.who.int/iris/rest/bitstream

Tracking Universal Health Coverage: 2023 Global monitoring report

World Health Organisation (WHO) (2023) C_WHO

The world is off track to make significant progress towards universal health coverage (UHC) (SDG target 3.8) by 2030 as improvements to health services coverage have stagnated since 2015, and the proportion of the population that faced catastrophic levels of out-of-pocket (OOP) health spending has increased

Tags: universal health coverage, monitoring, SDG, health spending,

Source: https://cdn.who.int/media/docs/default-s

Economically disadvantaged countries are under threat of failing to accomplish SDG 3 by 2030

Rüppel, J.; Rüppel T. (2019) CC

It is of utmost importance to low-income countries and some lower-middle income nations in the time of the SDG period that they are not on course to accomplish the health-related SDG 3 and its targets until 2030. If we honestly intend to support this goal and realize it for the people living in the regions that are facing the lowest survival chances, we also need to recognize that these countries are far from being in a position to raise the necessary resources solely with their own means

Tags: Analysis, factsheet, ODA, global health financing, SDGs, sdg 3, donor funding,

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Necessary Financial Efforts to achieve the Health Goal of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Charts

Rüppel, J.; Rüppel, T. (2019) CC

Ensuring healthy lives and promoting well-being for all is possible – but only if economically better-off and disadvantaged countries play their part

Tags: SDGs, sdg 3, global health financing, charts, Analysis, Advocacy,

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Critical considerations and actions for achieving universal access to sexual and reproductive health in the context of universal health coverage through a primary health care approach

World Health Organisation (WHO) (2023) C_WHO

The objective of Critical Considerations and Actions for Achieving Universal Access to Sexual and Reproductive Health in the Context of Universal Health Coverage through a Primary Health Care Approach is to provide guidance to WHO Member States for ensuring progress towards universal access to comprehensive sexual and reproductive health (SRH) in the context of primary health care (PHC)- and universal health coverage (UHC)-related policy and strategy reforms

Tags: universal health coverage, Reproductive Health, sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR), primary health care services,

Source: https://extranet.who.int/iris/restricted

Financing Global Health 2018: Countries and Programs in Transition

Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) (2019) C2

This 10th edition of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation’s annual Financing Global Health report provides the most up-to-date estimates of development assistance for health, domestic spending on health, health spending on two key infectious diseases – malaria and HIV/AIDS – and future scenarios of health spending. Several transitions in global health financing inform this report: the influence of economic development on the composition of health spending; the emergence of other sources of development assistance funds and initiatives; and the increased availability of disease-specific funding data for the global health community. For funders and policymakers with sights on achieving 2030 global health goals, these estimates are of critical importance. They can be used for identifying funding gaps, evaluating the allocation of scarce resources, and comparing funding across time and countries

Tags: transition of care, finance, financing health systems, Health financing,

Source: https://www.healthdata.org/sites/default

Supporting the routine use of evidence during the policy-making process: a WHO checklist

World Health Organisation (WHO) (2023) C_WHO

This checklist is for any organization or person supporting the routine use of evidence in the process of policy-making. Evidence-informed policy-making (EIPM) is essential for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and universal health coverage (UHC). Its importance is emphasized in WHO’s Thirteenth General Programme of Work 2019–2023 (GPW13). This checklist was developed by the WHO Secretariat of Evidence-Informed Policy Network (EVIPNet) to assist its Member countries in institutionalizing EIPM. Government agencies (i.e. the staff of the Ministry of Health), knowledge intermediaries and researchers focused on strengthening EIPM will find in this checklist some key steps and tools to help their work. While the health sector is a key target group for EVIPNet, this tool can be applied by stakeholders from different social sector

Tags: policy-making, processes, evidence,

Source: https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/hand

Actioning the Emergency Medical Teams’ initiative in the WHO African Region: strategic paper

World Health Organisation (WHO) (2023) C_WHO

Emergency medical teams (EMT) are first response health care providers – doctors, nurses, paramedics, and others – during outbreaks and emergencies or disasters, working with governments, charities such as nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), armies, and international organizations such as the International Red Cross/Red Crescent movement. They comply with the classification and minimum standards set by the World Health Organization (WHO) and its partners and bring to an emergency their training and self-sufficiency so as not to burden the national health system. EMT initiatives strengthen national surge capacities and facilitate the deployment of internationally classified teams of health- care professionals to countries and territories during emergencies, particularly during disease outbreaks and natural disasters, providing immediate assistance when national health systems are overwhelmed . Considering that they aim to support the provision of quality clinical care services to populations affected by public health emergencies, the expectation is that financial resources and equipment will be available to enable the performance of the requested task

Tags: emergency medicine, strategy, WHO African Region, health system,

Source: https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/hand

	Analizar y superar las barreras de acceso para fortalecer la atención primaria de salud Pan American Health Organization PAHO (2023) C_WHO View PDF(5) Download (4) Add to my MEDBOX Este informe presenta los resultados de la colaboración entre la Organización Panamericana de la Salud y sus Estados Miembros para analizar las barreras de acceso a la atención primaria de salud, así como para formular opciones de políticas encaminadas a reducirlas y eliminarlas de manera progresiva. El primer capítulo presenta una caracterización de los sistemas de salud de la Región de las Américas y los desafíos para el acceso universal en el contexto de la pandemia de COVID-19. El segundo ofrece un marco metodológico y de análisis para el estudio de las barreras de acceso y la determinación de opciones de políticas. En los capítulos 3 a 6 se presentan estudios de casos centrados en las barreras que enfrentan los grupos en situación de mayor vulnerabilidad en el contexto y la trayectoria de distintas reformas de los sistemas de salud. A modo de conclusión, se presentan recomendaciones generales que permitirán promover la agenda aún inconclusa hacia el acceso universal a la salud y la cobertura universal de salud Tags: salud primaria, métodos de barrera, sistema de salud, Source: https://iris.paho.org/bitstream/handle/1
	Towards UHC: thinking public World Health Organisation (WHO) (2017) C_WHO View PDF(21) Download (14) Add to my MEDBOX Past quantitative research on health financing has focused mostly on the level and distribution of total expenditure, with little emphasis on the specific role of public funds, despite their known importance for universal health coverage (UHC). Health Accounts data do not disaggregate public expenditure on health by source of funding. Achieving a better understanding of public financing for health in the context of the macro-fiscal and health financing environment is of fundamental importance to the development of future health financing policy, particularly in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) Tags: universal health coverage, UHC, public health, Health financing, health spending, Source: https://apps.who.int/iris/rest/bitstream
	Global spending on health: Weathering the storm World Health Organization WHO (2020) C_WHO View PDF(105) Download (73) Add to my MEDBOX The 2020 Report analyzes global health spending for 190 countries from 2000 to 2018 and provides insights as to the health spending trajectory from the MDG era to the SDG era prior to the crisis of 2020. The report shows that global spending on health continually rose between 2000 and 2018 and reached US$ 8.3 trillion or 10% of global GDP. The data also show that out-of-pocket spending has remained high in low and lower-middle income countries, representing greater than 40% of total health spending in 2018. We also report and summarize the data on expenditures for PHC, as well as by disease and intervention, including for immunization. The report also analyzes the available data on budget allocation in response to the COVID-19 crisis. In addition, we combine World Bank/IMF projections of the macroeconomic and fiscal impact of the crisis with an analysis of the historical determinants of health spending patterns and UHC indicators, and based on this, we draw out the likely implications of 2020 for future health spending, highlighting key policy and monitoring concerns Tags: health care financing, SDGs, UHC, universal health care, global health, global health financing, Source: https://apps.who.int/iris/rest/bitstream
	Tracking Universal Health Coverage: 2023 Global monitoring report World Health Organisation (WHO) (2023) C_WHO View PDF(14) Download (17) Add to my MEDBOX The world is off track to make significant progress towards universal health coverage (UHC) (SDG target 3.8) by 2030 as improvements to health services coverage have stagnated since 2015, and the proportion of the population that faced catastrophic levels of out-of-pocket (OOP) health spending has increased Tags: universal health coverage, monitoring, SDG, health spending, Source: https://cdn.who.int/media/docs/default-s
	Economically disadvantaged countries are under threat of failing to accomplish SDG 3 by 2030 Rüppel, J.; Rüppel T. (2019) CC View PDF(216) Download (111) Add to my MEDBOX It is of utmost importance to low-income countries and some lower-middle income nations in the time of the SDG period that they are not on course to accomplish the health-related SDG 3 and its targets until 2030. If we honestly intend to support this goal and realize it for the people living in the regions that are facing the lowest survival chances, we also need to recognize that these countries are far from being in a position to raise the necessary resources solely with their own means Tags: Analysis, factsheet, ODA, global health financing, SDGs, sdg 3, donor funding, Source: https://www.medbox.org
	Necessary Financial Efforts to achieve the Health Goal of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Charts Rüppel, J.; Rüppel, T. (2019) CC View PDF(207) Download (101) Add to my MEDBOX Ensuring healthy lives and promoting well-being for all is possible – but only if economically better-off and disadvantaged countries play their part Tags: SDGs, sdg 3, global health financing, charts, Analysis, Advocacy, Source: https://www.medbox.org
	Critical considerations and actions for achieving universal access to sexual and reproductive health in the context of universal health coverage through a primary health care approach World Health Organisation (WHO) (2023) C_WHO View PDF(36) Download (36) Add to my MEDBOX The objective of Critical Considerations and Actions for Achieving Universal Access to Sexual and Reproductive Health in the Context of Universal Health Coverage through a Primary Health Care Approach is to provide guidance to WHO Member States for ensuring progress towards universal access to comprehensive sexual and reproductive health (SRH) in the context of primary health care (PHC)- and universal health coverage (UHC)-related policy and strategy reforms Tags: universal health coverage, Reproductive Health, sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR), primary health care services, Source: https://extranet.who.int/iris/restricted
	Financing Global Health 2018: Countries and Programs in Transition Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) (2019) C2 View PDF(228) Download (124) Add to my MEDBOX This 10th edition of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation’s annual Financing Global Health report provides the most up-to-date estimates of development assistance for health, domestic spending on health, health spending on two key infectious diseases – malaria and HIV/AIDS – and future scenarios of health spending. Several transitions in global health financing inform this report: the influence of economic development on the composition of health spending; the emergence of other sources of development assistance funds and initiatives; and the increased availability of disease-specific funding data for the global health community. For funders and policymakers with sights on achieving 2030 global health goals, these estimates are of critical importance. They can be used for identifying funding gaps, evaluating the allocation of scarce resources, and comparing funding across time and countries Tags: transition of care, finance, financing health systems, Health financing, Source: https://www.healthdata.org/sites/default
	Supporting the routine use of evidence during the policy-making process: a WHO checklist World Health Organisation (WHO) (2023) C_WHO View PDF(39) Download (30) Add to my MEDBOX This checklist is for any organization or person supporting the routine use of evidence in the process of policy-making. Evidence-informed policy-making (EIPM) is essential for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and universal health coverage (UHC). Its importance is emphasized in WHO’s Thirteenth General Programme of Work 2019–2023 (GPW13). This checklist was developed by the WHO Secretariat of Evidence-Informed Policy Network (EVIPNet) to assist its Member countries in institutionalizing EIPM. Government agencies (i.e. the staff of the Ministry of Health), knowledge intermediaries and researchers focused on strengthening EIPM will find in this checklist some key steps and tools to help their work. While the health sector is a key target group for EVIPNet, this tool can be applied by stakeholders from different social sector Tags: policy-making, processes, evidence, Source: https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/hand
	Actioning the Emergency Medical Teams’ initiative in the WHO African Region: strategic paper World Health Organisation (WHO) (2023) C_WHO View PDF(37) Download (37) Add to my MEDBOX Emergency medical teams (EMT) are first response health care providers – doctors, nurses, paramedics, and others – during outbreaks and emergencies or disasters, working with governments, charities such as nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), armies, and international organizations such as the International Red Cross/Red Crescent movement. They comply with the classification and minimum standards set by the World Health Organization (WHO) and its partners and bring to an emergency their training and self-sufficiency so as not to burden the national health system. EMT initiatives strengthen national surge capacities and facilitate the deployment of internationally classified teams of health- care professionals to countries and territories during emergencies, particularly during disease outbreaks and natural disasters, providing immediate assistance when national health systems are overwhelmed . Considering that they aim to support the provision of quality clinical care services to populations affected by public health emergencies, the expectation is that financial resources and equipment will be available to enable the performance of the requested task Tags: emergency medicine, strategy, WHO African Region, health system, Source: https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/hand