As COVID-19 leads to a “cash crunch” for the private health sector in developing countries, Mark Hellowell (University of Edinburgh), Andrew Myburgh, Mirja Sjoblom and Srinivas Gurazada (World Bank Group) and Dave Clarke (World Health Organization), consider the opportunities and risks of providing state support to health care businesses. The World Health Organization is calling […]
David Clarke, WHO HQ, Dr. Mark Hellowell, Director, Global Health Policy Unit University of Edinburgh, Barbara O’Hanlon, member of the WHO Expert Advisory Group on the Governance of the Private Sector, and Cynthia Eldrige, Impact for Health. Originally posted 6 April 2020. The COVID-19 pandemic has triggered a global surge in demand for health services. […]
For many of the world’s poorest countries, achieving universal health coverage – and the other health-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) – will require a big expansion of government health expenditure. There are a number of global actors that can help enable that expansion – or get in the way.
The case for universal health coverage (UHC) is a powerful one. But it is inherently political. Equitable coverage requires the rich to subsidise the poor, the healthy to support the sick.
