The symposium subthemes and specific topics under each subtheme are outlined below
- Ensuring financial risk protection using public funds
- Expanding the fiscal space for health financing
- Aligning UHC and the National development agenda.
- Macroeconomic determinants of health and macroeconomic analyses.
- Options for cross-subsidisation for risks of ill health
- Investment modalities to ensure health systems resilience
- Potential and feasibility of targeting approaches.
- User fee removal policies: Experiences and influences.
- Risk sharing and pooling of funds through insurance
- Options for cross-subsidisation for risks of ill health
- Monitoring and evaluation of financial risk protection
- Investment modalities to ensure health systems resilience
- Designing and implementing National health insurance systems
- Leveraging private and community based insurance models for UHC
- Leveraging Health benefits from investment in other sectors
- Leveraging community resources for health
- Institutionalizing a multisectoral approach to enhance health
- Leveraging National social protection agenda
- Incentivising cross-sectoral collaboration.
- Social economic and environmental determinants of health: Costs and financing.
- Strategic purchasing and results-based financing (RBF)
- Current purchasing arrangements and their influence on UHC
- Prioritizing interventions for UHC
- Contribution of RBF to the UHC agenda
- Provider payment methods and quality of care
- Monitoring and evaluating RBF and other strategic purchasing initiatives.
- Potential and feasibility of targeting approaches
- Investment modalities to ensure health systems resilience
- Global health initiatives and innovative financing
- Opportunities for innovative financing
- Investment modalities to ensure health systems resilience
- Contribution of the private sector to health financing
- Fiscal implications of macroeconomic growth and graduation from International funding mechanisms.
- Leveraging aid and global health initiatives for UHC developments.