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Financing Health for All: Increase, Transform and Redirect

Authors: The WHO Council on the Economics of Health for All
Source: World Health Organization
Year: 2021

The world has been turned on its head by the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. This has provided a stark wake-up call on the severe under-financing of health systems around the world. It has laid bare the inequalities and limitations in the capacities of countries at all levels of development to prevent major health crises or respond to them. But it doesn’t have to be this way. The COVID-19 crisis has opened a window for radical redirection. The Council believes that it is vital to pursue a new paradigm that eliminates macroeconomic policies and assumptions that move us away from Health for All, and instead, find finance that achieves the mission of Health for All. To realize such aims, we must reverse – and expand – our perspective on health and economic development: from pursuing health for the economy, to redesigning the economy for health.

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