This course aims to improve understanding of health financing policy, and how it can support progress towards universal health coverage (UHC). Based on WHO’s health systems framework, the different functions of health financing policy, namely revenue raising, pooling, purchasing, and benefit package design, are each discussed in detail with extensive country illustrations.

Self-paced (approximately 6 hours of course time)

This course aims to improve understanding of health financing policy, and how it can support progress towards universal health coverage (UHC). Based on WHO’s health systems framework, the different functions of health financing policy, namely revenue raising, pooling, purchasing, and benefit package design, are each discussed in detail with extensive country illustrations.

Self-paced (approximately 6 hours of course time)

This module on Cross-Programmatic Efficiency Analysis will provide you with an approach to analysing efficiency across health programmes within a health system. Through analysing health programmes based on their common health system functions, you can see how they interact with one another and the overall system, and where inefficiencies can be identified.

Self-paced (approximately 1 hour of course time)

Health financing is a core function of all health systems and can enable progress towards universal health coverage (UHC) by improving effective service coverage and financial protection.

Since 2013 the WHO Health Financing Team in Geneva has held an advanced face-to-face course on health financing for UHC for low- and middle-income countries; the course complements WHO’s e-Learning Course on Health Financing Policy for UHC. To respond to the situation presented by the COVID-19 pandemic, this completely new course provides an online facilitated advanced health financing course.

Facilitated course (approximately 25 hours of course time)