Health Financing Policy : The Macroeconomic, Fiscal, and Public Finance Context.

Front Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- About the Author -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Background -- Objectives of the Guidance Note -- Chapter 2 Objectives of Health Financing Policy Dialogue -- Objectives -- The Starting Point -- Unpacking the Health Financing Challenges -- Chapter 3 Macroeconomic and Fiscal Context: The Potential Government Resource Envelope for Health -- Key Questions -- Macroeconomic and Fiscal Constraints -- Key Questions and Resources to Understand the Macroeconomic and Fiscal Context -- Government Budget and Spending Priorities -- Measures and Resources to Understand the Budget Process and Priority-Setting -- Key Questions and Resources to Understand the Budget Process and Priority-Setting -- Note -- Chapter 4 Assessing Options for Raising Revenue for the Health Sector -- Key Questions -- Assessing Alternative Sources of Revenue -- Earmarked Taxes and Revenue -- Innovative Revenue Sources -- Key Questions and Resources to Assess Options for Sources of Government Revenue for Health -- Chapter 5 Opportunities for Better Aligning Health Spending with Health System Objectives -- Key Questions -- Opportunities to Improve Pooling -- Key Questions and Resources to Understand the Opportunities and Constraints to Improve Pooling -- Opportunities to Improve Purchasing -- Key Questions and Resources to Understand the Opportunities and Constraints to Improve Purchasing -- Chapter 6 Fiscal Sustainability of Current Health Spending Patterns and Potential Efficiency Gains -- Key Questions -- Expenditure Targets and Caps -- Strategic Purchasing for Efficiency and Value for Money -- Supply- and Demand-Side Controls -- Key Questions and Resources to Understand the Fiscal Sustainability of Current Spending Patterns -- Chapter 7 Conclusions -- References -- Boxes.

2.1 Attempts to Cost the Essential Services Package in Peru -- 3.1 Revenue Collection Policies and the Government Health Budget in Ghana -- 3.2 Government Spending Out of Line with Macroeconomic and Fiscal Realities in Ghana -- 3.3 Countercyclical Policies and Health Expenditure -- 3.4 Increasing the Discretionary Share of the Government Budget in Kenya -- 3.5 Opportunities to Increase the Priority for Health in the Government Budget in Indonesia -- 3.6 Fiscal Decentralization and Priority for Health in the Budget in Brazil -- 3.7 Fiscal Decentralization and Reprioritizing Health in the Government Budget in India and Vietnam -- 4.1 Diversification of Revenue Sources for the Health Sector: France, Japan, and Ghana -- 4.2 Unclear Combined Equity of the Revenue Sources for the National Health Insurance Scheme in Ghana -- 4.3 New Source of Health Revenue Displaced the Government Budget in Kazakhstan -- 5.1 Partial Fiscal Recentralization to Preserve Pooling of Health Funds in the Kyrgyz Republic -- 5.2 Effective Cross-Subsidization with Multiple Insurance Programs in Japan and France -- 5.3 Integrating Multiple Insurance Schemes or Programs to Improve Pooling -- 5.4 Constraints of the Line-Item Budget for Improving Health Purchasing in Mongolia -- 6.1 Expenditure Targets and "Early Warning Systems" in France -- 6.2 The Power of the Large Purchaser in Thailand -- Figures -- 2.1 Government Health Spending as a Share of Total Health Expenditure and Progress toward Objectives in Ghana and Indonesia -- 2.2 Key Challenges in Health Financing in Low- and Middle-Income Countries -- 3.1 Revenue Generation as a Share of GDP, by Income Group, 2012 -- B3.1.1 Projections of Fiscal Space for Health in Ghana, 2009-15 -- T3.2.1 Indonesia: Macrofiscal Context and Health Financing Fact Sheet -- 3.2 Health as a Share of Total General Government Expenditure, 2012.

B3.4.1 The Discretionary Share of the Government Budget and Allocation to Health in Kenya, 2006-12 -- B3.6.1 Health as a Share of the Total Government Budget in Brazil, 2000-12 -- B3.7.1 Health as a Share of the Total Government Budget and Coverage of the National Health Insurance System in Vietnam, 2002-12 -- Tables -- 1.1 Key Issues and Questions for Health Financing Policy Dialogue -- 2.1 Examples of Costing Exercises for National Health Sector Plans -- 2.2 Key Questions and Resources for Health Financing Policy Dialogue -- 2.3 Health Financing Baseline: Ghana and Indonesia -- 2.4 Progress toward Health Sector Objectives -- 3.1 Revenue Generation as a Share of GDP by Income Group, 2012 -- 3.2 Key Questions and Resources to Understand Macroeconomic and Fiscal Context -- 3.3 Key Questions and Resources to Understand the Budget Process and Priority-Setting -- 4.1 Innovative Sources of Domestic Revenue and the Estimated Revenue-Raising Potential -- 4.2 Key Questions and Resources to Assess Alternative Government Revenue Sources for Health -- 5.1 Common Challenges in Public Financial Management (PFM) Systems to Match Health Funding with Objectives -- 5.2 Key Questions and Resources to Understand Opportunities and Constraints to Improve Pooling -- 5.3 Key Questions and Resources to Assess Opportunities and Constraints to Improve Purchasing -- 6.1 Key Questions and Resources to Assess Fiscal Sustainability of Current Spending Patterns -- Back Cover.

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