01459nam a22001937a 4500003000900000005001700009008004100026020001800067040001700085110007200102245011300174264008900287300001800376520074600394650002501140650002401165650003101189856004501220PH-MaWHO20260928100738.0260928b        |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a9789290620228  cWPRO Library  aWorld Health Organization. Regional Office for the Western Pacific.  aProgress towards universal health coverage :bmonitoring financial protection in the Western Pacific Region.  aManila :bWorld Health Organization. Regional Office for the Western Pacific,c2023.  aix, 48 pages.3 aFinancial protection lies at the core of universal health coverage. The regional monitoring report on financial protection shows that the Region was off-track to reduce financial hardship due to health expenditures based on data available from 13 countries, from 2000 to 2017. Disaggregated data analysis further suggests that in the Western Pacific Region, the populations most affected by financial hardship are the most vulnerable and include poor, older and rural households; and that medicines are the main driver of out-of-pocket spending in countries where data were available. Although several health reforms and health policies have been implemented in the Region, more effective policies are needed to improve financial protection.  aHealthcare financing  aResource allocation  aUniversal health insurance  uhttps://iris.who.int/handle/10665/373520