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Coodinator for Health Financing Policy at the World Health Organization (WHO) Joe Kutzin, who is also the author of the recommendations for the revival of the public health system in Ukraine, told the Interfax-Ukraine News Agency in an exclusive interview whether Ukraine should continue implementing healthcare reform after the war, what the benefits of this reform are, and how the WHO recommends to revive the medical care system after the war.
It is entrenched as a fundamental human right in the International Covenant of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, and the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. There has recently been a subtle and little-noticed shift in the discourse around universal health care towards framing it as Universal Health Coverage, including in the language of documents.
Framing the fundamental human right to healthcare as insurance cover opens it up to exploitation. Dr Louis Reynolds from the People’s Health Movement of South Africa explains.
Health Financing Progress Matrix 2.0 Launch Event
Health Financing Progress Matrix 2.0 Launch Event 16 December 2020 14:30 – 15:30 CET
UHC is at the core of WHO s strategic direction, and effective, evidence-informed health financing policies are essential for progress. The Health Financing Progress Matrix (HFPM) is the World Health Organization’s standardized qualitative approach to assessing how aligned a country’s health financing system is with Universal Health Coverage. It crystallizes thinking on what matters in health financing for UHC, based on a body of evidence and normative work developed over the past thirty years. The HFPM assesses a country’s health financing institutions, policies and their implementation at a given point in time, which ultimately impacts on population access to quality health services, and the incidence of financial hardship. Given the centrality of health financing to UHC, the HFPM is integral to supporting progress towards the ta