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Health financing

Health financing is concerned with how financial resources are generated, allocated and used in health systems. Examples of health financing issues include: (i) how and from where to raise sufficient funds for health; (ii) how to overcome financial barriers that exclude many poor from accessing health services; or (iii) how to provide an equitable and efficient mix of health services.

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Fact sheet
Paying for health services

Fact sheet
Spending on health: a global overview

Q&A on health financing
Is there a single best system of health insurance?

RELATED TOPICS

- Health systems

- Reproductive health: financing

- Immunization: financing

- Macroeconomics and health

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Health systems financing

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Health Systems Financing

HEALTH FINANCING IN WHO REGIONS

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