Health financing in the context of the right to health 2012, para. 34
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- The right to health requires States to ensure that good quality health facilities, goods and services are accessible to all without discrimination. To respect and fulfil the right to health, States should remove financial barriers that restrict access to health care. Accordingly, the right to health requires States to ensure that the ability to pay does not affect an individual's decision whether to access necessary health goods and services. Health systems funded by prepayments, such as tax- and compulsory insurance-based systems, reduce financial barriers through the pooling of funds collected prior to the point of service delivery. Pooling is a method by which funds for health are accumulated and managed in order to spread the financial risk of illness across all members of a pool, over a period of time. Pooling promotes equitable financing for health by facilitating cross-subsidies from healthy to unhealthy and from wealthy to poor members of the pool and across the life cycles of individual members. Pooling also increases efficiency by promoting more equitable improvements in health across populations and hedging against risks associated with uncertainties related to future health and financial capacity.
- Legal status
- Non-negotiated soft law
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Means of adoption
- N.A.
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2012
- Paragraph type
- Other
- Reference
- SR Health, Report to the UNGA (2012), A/67/302, para. 34.
- Paragraph number
- 34
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