The world health report - 2010

Health systems financing: the path to universal coverage

Good health is essential to human welfare and to sustained economic and social development. WHO's Member States have set themselves the target of developing their health financing systems to ensure that all people can use health services, while being protected against financial hardship associated with paying for them.

In this report, the World Health Organization maps out what countries can do to modify their financing systems so they can move more quickly towards this goal - universal coverage - and sustain the gains that have been achieved The report builds on new research and lessons learnt from country experience. It provides an action agenda for countries at all stages of development and proposes ways that the international community can better support efforts in low income countries to achieve universal coverage and improve health outcomes.

- Executive summary [pdf 1.67Mb] 
- Full report [pdf 2.82Mb]

REPORT BY CHAPTERS

- Contents [pdf 46kb] 
- Director-General message and executive summary [pdf 595kb] 
- Chapter 1: Where are we now? [pdf 224kb] 
- Chapter 2: More money for health [pdf 622kb] 
- Chapter 3: Strength in numbers [pdf 655kb] 
- Chapter 4: More health for the money [pdf 296kb] 
- Chapter 5: An agenda for action [pdf 207kb] 
- Index [pdf 83kb]