Global monitoring report on financial protection in health 2021
12 December 2021
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Overview
The 2021 Global monitoring report on financial protection in health shows that before the COVID-19 pandemic, the world was off-track to reduce financial hardship due to health expenditures because trends in catastrophic health spending were going in the wrong direction and the number of people incurring impoverishing health spending remained unacceptably high (Chapter 1). Chapter 2 summarizes emerging evidence on the consequence of the pandemic and the related macroeconomic and fiscal crisis that points to the likely worsening of financial protection for households, particularly as a result of declining income and consumption, along with rising poverty and inequality.
WHO Team
Data and Analytics (DNA),
Health Systems Governance and Financing (HGF)
Editors
World Health Organization and the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development / The World Bank
Number of pages
132
Reference numbers
ISBN: 978 92 4 004095 3