Overview

Health financing is a core function of all health systems and can enable progress towards universal health coverage (UHC) by improving effective service coverage and financial protection. At least half of the people in the world do not receive the health services they need. About 100 million people are pushed into extreme poverty each year because of out-of-pocket spending on health. This must change. The course seeks to build and improve the capacity of health policy and financing professionals and researchers in key areas related to universal health coverage in order to enable them to support their countries’ UHC programs more effectively. Build and reinforce capacities for design, implementation and monitoring & evaluation of country UHC programmes

Facilitate the dissemination of research findings on health financing issues in Africa, as well as serve as forum for sharing of information and networking among professionals

Provide a platform for engaging policy makers, while facilitating exchanges and debates between researchers, policy makers, practitioners as well as civil society at the national, sub- and regional levels.

Cost:

The cost is for a group of 6 participants.

Module 1. Overview

• The goals of universal health coverage
• Health financing policy and universal health coverage
• How health financing can influence UHC
• Beyond health financing: the wider health system and economy
• What UHC brings to health financing policy

Module 2. Revenue raising

• Revenue raising and policy objectives
• What is fiscal space for health?
• Efforts to increase public spending on health
• Increasing stability and predictability
• Summary of key messages
• Knowledge check

Module 3. Pooling revenues

• Pooling and policy objectives
• Desirable characteristics of pooling arrangements
• Policy responses to fragmentation
• Summary of key messages
• Knowledge check

Module 4. Purchasing

• Strategic purchasing of health services
• Challenges facing purchasers
• Institutional arrangements and purchasing instruments
• Paying for primary health care services
• Paying for hospital services
• Summary of key messages
• Knowledge check

Module 5. Benefit package design

• Benefits, rationing and policy objectives
• Benefit package and coverage choices
• Using the benefit package to promote UHC
• Aligning benefit packages
• Summary of key messages
• Knowledge check

Module 6. Summary

• Health financing policy overview
• Revenue raising
• Pooling
• Purchasing health services
• Benefit package design

Module 7. Summary

• Benchmark on Kenya health system
• Visit of one public hospital and private hospital implementing UHC Kenya

NB: A group of more than 6 participants needed. Thank you

General Notes

·         All our courses can be Tailor-made to participants' needs

·         The participant must be conversant in English

·         Presentations are well-guided, practical exercises, web-based tutorials, and group work. Our facilitators are experts with more than 10 years of experience.

·         Upon completion of training the participant will be issued with a Foscore development center certificate (FDC-K)

·         Training will be done at the Foscore development center (FDC-K) centers. We also offer inhouse and online training on the client schedule

·         Course duration is flexible and the contents can be modified to fit any number of days.

·         The course fee for onsite training includes facilitation training materials, 2 coffee breaks, a buffet lunch, and a Certificate of successful completion of Training. Participants will be responsible for their own travel expenses and arrangements, airport transfers, visa application dinners, health/accident insurance, and other personal expenses.

·         Accommodation, pickup, freight booking, and Visa processing arrangement, are done on request, at discounted prices.

·         Tablet and Laptops are provided to participants on request as an add-on cost to the training fee.

·         One-year free Consultation and Coaching provided after the course.

·         Register as a group of more than two and enjoy a discount of (10% to 50%)

·         Payment should be done before commence of the training or as agreed by the parties, to the FOSCORE DEVELOPMENT CENTER account, so as to enable us to prepare better for you.

·         For any inquiries reach us at training@fdc-k.org or +254712260031

·         Website:www.fdc-k.org