Recommended - A Financing Strategy to Expand Surgical Health Care

 

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The Global Surgery Foundation recommends this publication on a Financing Strategy to Expand Surgical Health Care by Desmond T. Jumbam, Che L. Reddy, John G. Meara, Emmanuel M. Makasa and Rifat Atun.

Key Findings

  • Despite the strategic efforts taken by numerous low- and middle-income countries to develop national surgical, obstetric, and anesthesia plans (NSOAPs) to address surgical needs at a population level, financing these policies remains a challenge.

  • To address the surgical financing challenge, it is necessary to examine the fiscal space options for financing such policies from the very beginning of policy development and throughout the development process.

Key Implications

  • The proposed surgical health care financing strategy (SHFS) uses an analytic iterative process to identify potential sources of funding, quantify the investment, and mobilize political support for surgical systems at a national level.

  • The SHFS could also help to promote responsibility, accountability, and transparency about financial commitments around funding NSOAPs and other policies designed to improve surgical health care through the implementation of an essential surgical package via universal health coverage.

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