01576nam a22002297a 4500 PH-MaWHO 20260928100738.0 260928b |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9789290620228 WPRO Library W 84.1 2023PR World Health Organization. Regional Office for the Western Pacific. 643292 Progress towards universal health coverage : monitoring financial protection in the Western Pacific Region. Manila : World Health Organization. Regional Office for the Western Pacific, 2023. ix, 48 pages. Financial 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. Healthcare financing 624536 Resource allocation 514605 Universal health insurance 439614 https://iris.who.int/handle/10665/373520 nml MONO 18542 18542 0 0 nml 0 0 WPRO WPRO WPRO 2nd floor library 2026-09-28 0 W 84.1 2023PR WPR001819 2026-09-28 10:08:08 1 2026-09-28 MONO 0 0 nml 0 0 WPRO WPRO WPRO 1st floor library 2026-09-28 0 WPRO File (Books) WPR001820 2026-09-28 10:09:20 2 2026-09-28 MONO