Session 1: Introduction to Health Systems and Universal Health Coverage

At the end of this session, you should be able to answer the following questions:

1. What are health system function?
2. what does the health financing function?
3. How would you explain the Universal Health Coverage concept?

Reading resources:

1. World Health Organization. World Health Report 2000 – Chap 1– Why do health systems matter? Geneva: World Health Organization, 2000.  Available from: https://www.who.int/whr/2000/en/
2. World Bank definitions of health systems: WORLD BANK 2007. Healthy development: the World Bank strategy for health, nutrition, & population results, World Bank. (Annex F: What is a health system?). Available from: http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/102281468140385647/pdf/409280PAPER0He101OFFICIAL0USE0ONLY1.pdf
3.  WHO Strategy on strengthening health systems: WHO 2007. Everybody's Business: Strengthening Health Systems to Improve Health Outcomes: WHO's Framework for Action, World Health Organization. Available from: http://bit.ly/A8s7PD
4.  Summary of Bismark, Beveridge & National Health Insurance models. Available from: http://to.pbs.org/wLPitf