e-Learning Course on Health Financing Policy for universal health coverage

e-Learning Course on Health Financing Policy for universal health coverage (UHC): The first e-learning course on health financing policy for universal health coverage was launched by WHO. The e-Learning Course on Health Financing Policy for universal health coverage is designed to be used in a variety of ways: as preparation for those who will attend a WHO face-to-face course, for those who are for various reasons unable to attend a face-to-face course, and for those who have already attended courses and wish to refresh their knowledge. Individual modules can also be used as part of a programme of blended capacity building.e-Learning Course on Health Financing Policy for universal health coverage.

Details of the course:

Module 1. Overview

• • The goals of universal health coverage
  • Health financing policy and universal health coverage
  • How health financing can influence UHC
  • Beyond health financing: the wider health system and economy
  • What UHC brings to health financing policy

Module 2. Revenue raising

• • Revenue raising and policy objectives
  • What is fiscal space for health?
  • Efforts to increase public spending on health
  • Increasing stability and predictability
  • Summary of key messages
  • Knowledge check

Module 3. Pooling revenues

• • Pooling and policy objectives
  • Desirable characteristics of pooling arrangements
  • Policy responses to fragmentation
  • Summary of key messages
  • Knowledge check

Module 4. Purchasing

• • Strategic purchasing of health services
  • Challenges facing purchasers
  • Institutional arrangements and purchasing instruments
  • Paying for primary health care services
  • Paying for hospital services
  • Summary of key messages
  • Knowledge check

Module 5. Benefit package design

• • Benefits, rationing and policy objectives
  • Benefit package and coverage choices
  • Using the benefit package to promote UHC
  • Aligning benefit packages
  • Summary of key messages
  • Knowledge check

Module 6. Summary

• • Health financing policy overview
  • Revenue raising
  • Pooling
  • Purchasing health services
  • Benefit package design

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Sample Course completion certificate 

Palika Coordinator – CEHP/ Nepal Red Cross Society

FP Adviser & FP Technical Adviser- The United Nations Population Fund

Assistant Professor & Lecturer-Manmohan Memorial Institute of Health Sciences

Oxford-Weidenfeld and Hoffmann Scholarships and Leadership Programme