Sustainable financing of health promotion services in selected countries: Best experience for developing countries

Abstract

Resources allocated to health promotion are not sustainable and change according to the country's budget policies and priorities. The accumulation of taxes/ sin tax of harmful goods and services and allocating them to health promotion can improve the public health and reduce the burden of diseases and imposed costs on the health system. →What this article adds:There are a variety of approaches to sustainable financing of health promotion services in Iran: taxes/sin tax on unhealthy foods, sweetened beverages & services; using the capacities of social insurance funds; and relying on government's budget.

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Assessing progress in the national health financing system towards universal health coverage in Iran: a mixed-method study protocol

“…Catastrophic costs [16][17][18][19] Low level of sustainability [15,[20][21][22] Deficit and expensive payment system, relied on fee-for-service [15,[23][24][25] Inadequate share of the public sector in total health expenditures [16] Fragmentation of revenue sources and pooling [15,23,24,26] Low level of efficiency [24] Existence of informal payments [27,28] Increased treatment costs [16] Ineffective strategic purchasing mechanisms [15,29,30] Insufficient redistribution of cross-subsidy between the insurance schemes [15] Differences between tariffs of public and private services [16] Poor transparency of financial flow [23,24] Fig. 3 Key health financing system reforms and their objectives in Iran be analysed using STATA.…”

“…Figure 2 describes the financial protection indicators in Iran and their trends during the last years. Although, UHC was prioritized in the country to be achieved by 2025 [15], Iran has encountered many challenges and financial hardship [15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30] (Table 1). To cope with these circumstances, the government has launched a wide range of health financing reforms in the recent years ( Fig.…”

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