The Path to Universal Health Coverage in Bangladesh

• Tác giả: Susan Powers Sparkes
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-13: 978-1464805363
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 720.95 Asia
• Thông tin xuất bản: Washington, DC: World Bank, 2015
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 321359
• Chủ đề: 1. Economic modeling; 2. Health finance; 3. Health policy; 4. Health workforce; 5. Human resources

Tóm tắt

 Bangladesh is committed to achieving universal health coverage (UHC) by 2032
  to this end, the government of Bangladesh is exploring policy options to increase fiscal space for health and expand coverage while improving service quality and availability. Despite Bangladesh's impressive strides in improving its economic and social development outcomes, the government still confronts health financing and service delivery challenges. In its review of the health system, this study highlights the limited fiscal space for implementing UHC in Bangladesh, particularly given low public spending for health and high out-of-pocket expenditure. The crisis in the country's human resources for health (HRH) compounds public health service delivery inefficiencies. As the government explores options to finance its UHC plan, it must recognize that reform of its service delivery system with particular focus on HRH has to be the centerpiece of any policy initiative.