Paying for Health

Jonathan Cylus is the head of the London Hubs of the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies based at the LSE and LSHTM, and Senior Health Economist in the WHO Barcelona Office for Health Systems Financing. His research focuses on health systems, particularly health financing policy, health economics, and health system performance. He has worked across Europe and beyond and with the European Commission, OECD, and WHO. Prior to joining the Observatory, Jonathan was an economist at CMS in the US. Jonathan holds a BA from Johns Hopkins and an MSc and PhD from LSE. Rebecca Forman is a Technical Officer at the European Observatory's London hub. Her work focuses on health financing, priority-setting, and health systems and policies. She has held previous roles at LSE Health and the Center for Global Development and has consulted for and worked with organizations including the World Bank, WHO, Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors and more. Rebecca also is an Editorial Board Member of the journal, Health Policy. Rebecca holds a BA from Brown University and a joint MSc from the LSE and LSHTM. Nathan Shuftan is a Research Fellow at the Berlin University of Technology, the Berlin hub of the European Observatory. He focuses on European health system and policy developments through projects like the State of Health in the EU, the Health Systems and Transition (HiT) series and policy. Elias Mossialos is the Cheng Yu Tung Chair in Global Health and Director of LSE Health. With over 300 publications in top journals in the public policy, health policy, economics and political science fields, his primary research focus revolves around health systems and policy, with a particular emphasis on issues related to healthcare financing, accessibility, pharmaceutical policies, and cancer care and policy. He co-founded the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, has served in Greece as a Member of Parliament and as Minister of State, advised global organizations, and he currently holds the position of senior fellow to the Ministry of health in Singapore. Professor Mossialos has received numerous awards, including the 2010 Andrija Stampar Medal, the 2021 Choice Award by the ACRL, the 2022 Helen-Clark-JoPPP Award and more. Peter C. Smith is Emeritus Professor of Health Policy at Imperial College and Emeritus Professor of Health Economics at the University of York. A mathematics graduate from Oxford, he started his academic career at the University of Cambridge and was Director of the Centre for Health Economics at York. At Imperial, he co-directed the Centre for Health Policy. His research focused on public service performance, particularly health care, publishing over 180 journal papers and 14 books. His recent work addressed global health, universal health coverage, and the economy-health system link. Peter has held numerous UK advisory roles and advised international organizations like WHO, IMF, and the World Bank.

• Introduction; Section 1. Revenue raising: 1.1 General taxation and social health insurance Ajay Tandon, Christoph Kurowski and David B. Evans; 1.2 Community-based health insurance Lucy Kanya, Manuela De Allegri and Valéry Ridde; 1.3 Voluntary health insurance Anna Sagan, Sarah Thomson; 1.4 Official development assistance for health Azusa Sato; Section 2. Pooling resources and defining benefits: 2.1 Approaches to risk pooling Sophie Witter, Joseph Kutzin and Susan Sparkes; 2.2 Setting a health benefits package Michael Drummond, Aleksandra Torbica and Jonas Schreyögg; 2.3 Decommissioning/disinvestment: reducing the provision of low-value care Michael Anderson, Humza Malik and Elias Mossialos; 2.4 User charges Jonathan Cylus, Riya Doshi, Sarah Thomson and Tamás Evetovits; 2.5 Long-term care: its financing and provision Tiago Cravo Oliveira Hashiguchi, Ana Llena-Nozal, Michael Mueller, José Carlos Ortega Regalado, Eileen Rocard and Francesca Colombo; Section 3. Commissioning and purchasing: 3.1 Paying for primary care Anne Sophie Oxholm and Anthony Scott; 3.2 Methods for paying hospitals Stephen Duckett, Andrew Street and Chris Walters; 3.3 Informal payments in health care Sara Allin, Ilias Kyriopoulos and Iva Parvanova; 3.4 Paying for medicines Nicole Mauer, Daniela Moye Holz, Sabine Vogler and Dimitra Panteli; 3.5 Paying for integrated care Søren Rud Kristensen, Ewout van Ginneken and Matthew Sutton; 3.6 Balancing incentives to promote quality of care and improve long-term care Ruth Waitzberg and Sharona Tsadok Rosenbluth; 3.7 From vertical to horizontal priority-setting: funding and procurement mechanisms Ranjeeta Thomas and Kalipso Chalkidou; 3.8 Funding pandemic preparedness Susan Sparkes, Andrew Mirelman, Alexandra Earle, Ankur Rakesh and Jonathan Abrahams; 3.9 Antibiotics as global public goods Matthew Renwick; 3.10 Financing innovation for neglected diseases Mohamed Gad, Marisa Miraldo and Mujaheed Shaikh.

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