The course 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.

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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

• For more information see policy framework

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

• For more information see the topic page on revenue raising

Module 3. Pooling revenues

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

• For more information see the topic page on pooling

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

• For more information see the topic page on purchasing and provider payment systems

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

• For more information see the topic page on benefit package

Module 6. Summary

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