WHO African Region Expenditure Atlas
Health financing and social protection remains key elements of the health system in particular,and health development in general in the African region. Appropriate health financing and social protection mechanisms will improve access to services and enable countries to achieve the targets set out in both international and African member states commitments to the agreed objectives such as the Millennium Developments Goals (MDG) and Universal Health Coverage (UHC).
For countries to define appropriate policies to finance health care it is imperative to know — the institutions or mechanisms that finance health care; — the institutions that obtain and administer resources to pay; — the entities that receive money in order to produce the required health care goods and services; and services and products purchased with health care funds.
