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Advanced course on health financing for universal coverage (virtual facilitation) [1]

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Date: 2023-02-20  

Learning approach:

Virtual facilitation

Overview

A new virtually facilitated version of the WHO Advanced course on health financing for UHC was launched in 2021. The third iteration will be conducted over a seven-week period, between February 20th until 9th April 2023.

This course will be led by the WHO Health Financing Team based in Geneva, with tutors drawn from WHO offices across the world. The course is hosted on the Virtual Campus for Public Health (VCPH) managed by the WHO Office for the Americas.

Pre-requisites

Participants are required to have previously completed the WHO e-learning course on Health Financing for UHC.

Target audience

As with all WHO’s advanced courses, the target audience is policy makers, advisors and analysts in the health and social sectors, actively involved in health financing policy development and implementation; typically, this includes senior officials in Ministries of Health and public health insurance funds, senior officials from other government agencies involved in health financing (e.g. Ministries of Finance, Parliamentarians), and officials from other relevant stakeholders e.g. service provider organizations, the private sector and civil society.

Course content and structure

There are six Modules:

Module 1: Overview of Health Financing and UHC

Module 2: Revenue Raising

Module 3: Pooling

Module 4: Overview of Strategic Purchasing & Provider Payment Reform

Module 5: Benefit entitlements and conditions of access

Module 6: Public Financial Management

Participants are required to:

attend live sessions (or watch recordings of these sessions) once per week

attend a live tutor-group discussion once per week

watch pre-recorded PowerPoint presentations

read essential readings; additional readings were also provided

actively engage in online group discussion forums

complete individual assignments based on the WHO Health Financing Progress Matrix

Each participant is part of a tutor-led discussion group with other participants.

As noted above, individuals are asked to use elements of the Health Financing Progress Matrix (HFPM) to analyze a country health system of their choice, for their individual assignment; the HFPM is used to guide the participant’s assignment throughout the course.

Evaluation and certification

Each participant is provided with personalized feedback and formal assessment from their tutor, and upon successful submission of their assignments will receive a certificate of completion.



Further information

Anyone interested in attending this advanced course must first have completed the self-paced e-learning course which can be found here.

If you are interested in attending this course, please contact your nearest WHO office.

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