Health Financing
Health Financing features articles on how health systems are paid for, how funding flows through health systems from payers to providers, and why this is important in generating economic value.

What Are Essential Health Benefits? A Simple Guide
Essential Health Benefits: Governments and health insurers use pooled funds to purchase health benefits for their citizens or insured populations ...

Health Financing Explained: Provider Payment Models
Health financing is a critical enabler of Universal Health Coverage (UHC). It ensures that people can access the universal coverage ...

Health Financing Explained: Strategic Purchasing
Health financing is a critical enabler of Universal Health Coverage (UHC). It ensures that people can access the universal coverage ...

Health Financing Explained: Risk Pooling
Health financing is a critical enabler of Universal Health Coverage (UHC). It ensures that people can access the universal coverage ...

Health Financing Explained: Revenue Sources
Health financing is a critical enabler of Universal Health Coverage (UHC). It ensures that people can access the universal coverage ...

Integrated Care Systems & Financial Flows
The new integrated care systems being established across England have ambitious goals to improve health and wellbeing outcomes ...

The Economics behind “Fair Shares” Funding Formulae for Health Services
Government funded health services account for around 60% of health expenditure ...

The Economics of Health Spending: How Much is Enough?
Global health spending is expected to increase by 38% by 2050. In this blog, we ask what is driving that ...