Health Economics and Financing

The primary goal of the Health Economics and Financing course, developed by UNICEF in joint partnership with the London School of Tropical Medicine, is to provide participants with the knowledge, skills, and basic economic arguments that are central to discussions about health policy options and choices in developing countries. More specifically, this course aims to share knowledge and policy experience on how health systems can improve equity in the financing and delivery of health care services by exposing the participants to key theoretical and empirical knowledge in the field of health financing and equity.

The course does not assume prior training in economics and is designed to highlight those aspects of health economics and health financing that will be most useful in an applied policy setting. The course provides a brief introduction to the theoretical and conceptual underpinnings of health economics, but the emphasis is on practical application to health financing and equity, such as understanding the efficiency and equity outcomes of policy options such as user fees, cash transfers, performance-based financing, or social insurance; and understanding how health care resources are generated, pooled and used to purchase services and the related effects on health system performance in terms of efficiency and equity.

This course is available in English only.

*Access to this course requires the user to register or create an account on the course platform.