Health sector financing
International Experiences in Removing User Fees for Health
Services - Implications for Mozambique
2006
This report considers if user fees for health services should be removed and reviews the experiences of countries that have gone down this route.
Charting the path to the World Bank’s “No blanket policy on user fees”
2005
A look over the past 25 years at the shifting support for user fees in health and education, and reflections on the future.
Medium Term Expenditure Frameworks
2002
An MTEF is a multi-year public expenditure planning exercise that is used to set out the future budget requirements for existing services, and to assess the resource implications of future policy changes and any new programmes. This paper describes the role and value of an MTEF, and how it links with other initiatives such as SWAPs, PRSPs and HIPC.
Allocating public resources for health: developing pro-poor approaches
2002
This paper focuses on the allocation of public resources, and the extent to which different approaches enable poor people to access essential services. It attempts to set out how a country might begin to allocate public resources in ways which promote better access by the poor to essential services.
Health financing: designing and implementing pro-poor policies
2001
This paper outlines what is known about the effects of main health care financing systems, and how they can be designed and implemented to be 'pro-poor'.
National Health Accounts: what are they and how can we use them?
1999
This paper provides a better understanding of the systematic approach in mapping the flow of health sector funds.
DFID Health insurance workshop
2002
An introduction to health insurance for low income countries
1998
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