Towards a coherent global framework for health financing: recommendations and recent developments.
The articles in this special issue have demonstrated how unprecedented transitions have come with both challenges and opportunities for health financing. Against the background of these challenges and opportunities, the Working Group on Health Financing at the Chatham House Centre on Global Health Security laid out, in 2014, a set of policy responses encapsulated in 20 recommendations for how to make progress towards a coherent global framework for health financing. These recommendations pertain to domestic financing of national health systems, global public goods for health, external financing for national health systems and the cross-cutting issues of accountability and agreement on a new global framework. Since the Working Group concluded its work, multiple events have reinforced the group's recommendations. Among these are the agreement on the Addis Ababa Action Agenda, the adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals, the outbreak of Ebola in West Africa and the release of the Panama Papers. These events also represent new stepping stones towards a new global framework.
1Oslo Group on Global Health Policy,Department of Community Medicine and Global Health and Centre for Global Health,University of Oslo,Oslo,Norway.
Trygve
T
Ottersen
4World Health Organization,Egypt Country Office,Cairo,Egypt.
Riku
R
Elovainio
5Health Systems Research and Dynamic Modelling Group,Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute,Switzerland.
David B
DB
Evans
7Centre for Primary Care and Public Health,Queen Mary University of London,London,UK.
David
D
McCoy
8Health Economics Unit,School of Public Health and Family Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences,University of Cape Town,Cape Town,South Africa.
Di
D
Mcintyre
8Health Economics Unit,School of Public Health and Family Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences,University of Cape Town,Cape Town,South Africa.
Filip
F
Meheus
9Department of Global Health and Population,Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health,Harvard University,Boston,MA,USA.
Suerie
S
Moon
10Institute of Public Health,Heidelberg University,Heidelberg,Germany.
Gorik
G
Ooms
11Department of Health Management and Health Economics,University of Oslo,Oslo,Norway.
John-Arne
JA
Røttingen
D026683:Advisory Committees; D005381:Financing, Organized; D014943:Global Health; D005102:Health Expenditures; D006292:Health Priorities; D006801:Humans