Subject: [hftn] Financing Common Goods for Health: NEW WHO Special Issue of Health Systems & Reform
From: Alexandra Earle via EZcollab <[email-masked]>
To: "WHO Health Financing Technical Network (HFTN Main Community)" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2020 07:50:54 +0000

Dear all,

WHO’s Department of Health Systems Governance and Financing is pleased to announce the launch of a special issue of Health Systems & Reform on Financing Common Goods for Health (https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/khsr20/current?nav=tocList).  Common Goods for Health (CGH) are population-based functions or interventions that require collective financing, either from government or donors based on associated market failures due to their nature as largely public goods. The set of eight research articles, five commentaries, and an introductory piece articulate, provide the technical and economic rationale for, estimate the cost of, and identify sources and modalities of financing for core common goods for health. The series challenges entrenched practices by placing new issues on the agenda for CGH financing, including societal risk factors -such as food systems- and the ever-growing health threats posed by environmental degradation and climate change. These are truly universal issues that affect all countries and populations, rich and poor alike.
 
Promoting financing for CGH requires the global health community to come together to support a set of functions and interventions that are necessary for all societies to protect and promote health and well-being. These population-based functions are essential to both making progress towards universal health coverage, as well as to tackling some of humanity’s largest challenges related to globalization and environmental health.  

All articles can be accessed here: https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/khsr20/current?nav=tocList

Please also access WHO’s new health topic page on Common Goods for Health for future updates: https://www.who.int/health-topics/common-goods-for-health#tab=tab_1
 
We welcome your feedback and interest in this work.

WHO Health Financing Team
Geneva

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