e-Learning Course on Health Financing Policy for universal health coverage (UHC)
The first e-learning course on health financing policy for universal health coverage has now been launched.

This e-learning course comprises six modules which cover the core functions of health financial policy as conceptualised by WHO.
Each module is divided into a number of sub-topics. This is a foundational course which targets participants of various levels of experience and expertise.
The course is designed to be used in a variety of ways: as preparation for those who will attend a WHO face-to-face course, for those who are for various reasons unable to attend a face-to-face course, and for those who have already attended courses and wish to refresh their knowledge. Individual modules can also be used as part of a programme of blended capacity building.
The course will work on a range of devices, operation systems and browsers.
Details of the course:

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