Measuring Equity in Health Care Financing : Reflections on (and Alternatives to) the World Health Organization's Fairness of Financing Index

Measuring Equity in Health Care Financing : Reflections on (and Alternatives to) the World Health Organization's Fairness of Financing Index

In its latest World Health Report, The World Health Organization (WHO) argues that a key dimension of a health system's performance is the fairness of its financing system. The report discusses how policymakers can improve this aspect of performance, proposes an index of fairness, discusses how...

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Main Author: Wagstaff, Adam
Format: Policy Research Working Paper
Language:en_US
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2014
Subjects:
Health care financing
World Health Organization
Performance indicators
Fairness
Index theory (mathematics)
Household data
Income variability
Health care
Policy making
Payments systems
Payments imbalances
Income redistribution
Comparative analysis
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/19962

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