Case Study: Global Health Financing: the Tool to Achieving Universal Health Coverage
For this assignment, imagine you are hired as a consultant, and tasked with preparing a presentation on the health financing status of a low-to-middle income country of your choice to share with their Ministry of Health. Your research and presentation should address the following questions:
1)How is the health sector financed?
2)What are the roles of public and private institutions in health sector financing?
3)To what extent does the health care system rely on out-of-pocket expenditures?
4)What groups of people do you anticipate are negatively impacted by this financing structure?
5)In your opinion, is the current financing of this country and its health care system sustainable?
6)Do these current methods allow the county to extend universal health coverage to its citizens?
7)Strengths and weaknesses of the current financing structure and its funding sources
8)Opportunities for improvement or methods to promote sustainable health funding (i.e. decrease reliance on external donor aid if applicable)