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Pakistan Health Financing System Assessment: Providing an Empirical Foundation for National and Sub-National Health Financing Strategy Dialogues - Policy Brief

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dc.contributor.authorWorld Bank
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-13T18:35:13Z
dc.date.available2025-01-13T18:35:13Z
dc.date.issued2025-01-13
dc.description.abstractAccelerated progress towards and achievement of universal health coverage (UHC) has become a central goal of the Government of Pakistan’s (GoP) policy agenda in health in recent years. Both at the center and in the provinces, Pakistan’s domestic governments have now consistently reiterated, through the National Health Vision 2016–2025 and other essential agenda setting documents, their joint commitments to making UHC and primary care access a priority across the country. The federal and provincial governments have initiated critical UHC and primary health care (PHC) related interventions. First, Pakistan has become an early adopter of the Disease Control Priority 3 (DCP3) framework and, in collaboration with the DCP3 Secretariat and the World Health Organization (WHO), has begun implementing for the first time a prioritized Essential Package of Health Services (EPHS). Another major program led by the federal government and now adopted by the provincial governments is the social health protection initiative, the Sehat Sahulat Program (SSP). The program, a tax-financed scheme, provides cash-free coverage to inpatient hospital services at empaneled public and private hospitals for eligible low-income populations (households earning less than US2 dollar per day). The EPHS and the public health insurance scheme are two promising developments that together hold the potential to expand health coverage, grow existing health finance resource pools, and improve efficiency of public health expenditures. Each would in turn help achieve broader objectives in a health financing system that has to date produced concerningly lagging health and human development outcomes. However, faced with resource needs significantly higher than current health expenditures, and a particularly turbulent near-term macro-fiscal environment, the GoP’s ability to sustainably fund crucial UHC priorities has become decidedly uncertain.en
dc.identifierhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099122424110017099/P175571113e5040161bc4f11f071a19e388
dc.identifier.doi10.1596/42665
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1596/42665
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/42665
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherWashington, DC: World Bank
dc.rightsCC BY-NC 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holderWorld Bank
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/igo
dc.subjectGOOD HEALTH
dc.subjectGOVERNANCE AND HEALTH
dc.subjectUNIVERSAL HEALTH COVERAGE
dc.subjectHEALTH FINANCE
dc.titlePakistan Health Financing System Assessmenten
dc.title.subtitleProviding an Empirical Foundation for National and Sub-National Health Financing Strategy Dialogues - Policy Briefen
dc.typeBrief
dspace.entity.typePublication
okr.date.disclosure2025-01-13
okr.date.doiregistration2025-04-14T11:57:15.435383Z
okr.date.lastmodified2025-01-02T00:00:00Zen
okr.doctypeBrief
okr.doctypePublications & Research
okr.docurlhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099122424110017099/P175571113e5040161bc4f11f071a19e388
okr.guid099122424110017099
okr.identifier.docmidP175571-13e504db-fc67-4716-bc4f-1f071a19e388
okr.identifier.externaldocumentum34442369
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okr.identifier.report196028
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okr.pdfurlhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099122424110017099/pdf/P175571113e5040161bc4f11f071a19e388.pdfen
okr.region.administrativeSouth Asia
okr.region.countryPakistan
okr.sectorPublic Administration - Health,Health-HG
okr.themeHealth Systems and Policies,Gender,Human Development and Gender,Data Development and Capacity Building,Private Sector Delivery in Health,Health Finance,Disease Control,Health System Strengthening,Pandemic Response,Health Service Delivery,Public Sector Management,Data production, accessibility and use
okr.topicHealth, Nutrition and Population::Health Economics & Finance
okr.topicHealth, Nutrition and Population::Health Insurance
okr.topicHealth, Nutrition and Population::Health Service Management and Delivery
okr.topicHealth, Nutrition and Population::Public Health Promotion
okr.unitHealth Nutri & Population SAR 2 (HSAHP)
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