Definition, Importance, and Formulation of Health Policy and Financing
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- 10.2991/978-94-6463-206-4_33How to use a DOI?
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- Health Policy; Governments; Formulation
- Abstract
Health policy is the implementation of public policies, namely policies that are established to improve the health status of the community. Health finance refers to how financial resources are used to ensure that the health system can adequately meet the collective health needs of all a vast amount of knowledge and experience has been accumulated on how to raise medical funds concerning financing. Governments are the preferred choice for fairness, efficiency, and risk-sharing and should play a dominant role in funding or financing health care through tax revenues. Healthcare financing is more than mobilizing additional funding for healthcare. It requires a system view and uses financial resources to reform healthcare institutions and encourage providers to provide efficient and effective healthcare. Things that must be considered in the formulation of health policy include actors, content, context, and process. All policies must be supported by adequate resources, both human and financial. Human resources are the suitability of the quality and quantity of implementers to cover the entire target audience. Financial resources are the adequacy of investment capital for programs and policies.
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TY - CONF AU - Salma Azzuhri Rozaqi PY - 2023 DA - 2023/07/21 TI - Definition, Importance, and Formulation of Health Policy and Financing BT - Proceedings of the Youth International Conference for Global Health 2022 (YICGH 2022) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 210 EP - 215 SN - 2468-5739 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-94-6463-206-4_33 DO - 10.2991/978-94-6463-206-4_33 ID - Rozaqi2023 ER -