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Principles of health care financing

How a community or country pays for health care has an outsize impact on their health. We review health financing models and their outcomes.

Reflect on the different methods of raising revenue for health care. Can you identify a low- or middle-income country that has used mainly tax funding for its public health system? And a country which has mainly used social health insurance?

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Transforming Primary Health Care through Health Systems Strengthening

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