Description
Can people afford to pay for healthcare?
Ukraine is currently implementing profound reforms to the health system with the aim of moving towards universal health coverage and enhancing efficiency and equity in public spending on health.
This review provides evidence on the extent to which households in Ukraine experienced financial hardship when using health services in the pre-reform period of 2010-2015. It provides a baseline for monitoring the impact of the reforms and future trends. The overall increase in the incidence of catastrophic spending between 2010 and 2015 was largely driven by a significant increase in incidence for the poorest quintile. Medicines and inpatient care are the largest drivers of catastrophic spending overall. Unmet need for health care is a growing problem. Survey data indicate that the share of people reporting unmet need doubled between 2010 and 2015.
Income inequality in unmet need is significant. Improving financial protection will only be possible through increasing public investment in health and tackling inefficiencies in the health system, accompanied by reform of coverage policy.
When – November 28th 2018, at 17.00
Presenters – Natalia Shapoval, vice-president, Kyiv School of Economics, Alyona Goroshko, Healthcare Financing Specialist (World Health Organization)
Language – Ukrainian