Health Systems Governance and Financing
We aim to empower actors and increase accountability, transparency and responsiveness in health systems in support of progress towards universal health coverage (UHC).

Economic Evaluation & Analysis

The Economic Evaluation and Analysis (EEA) team assists countries to collect, evaluate and introduce economic evidence into health policy. Cognizant from the start of resource constraints in countries at whatever income level, prioritization with a focus on allocative and technical efficiency is a key work area. Addressing the resource allocation decisions that policymakers regularly face, the work area on value for money and prioritization also includes considerations of health system feasibility, costs and budget impact, and an assessment of the contribution of improved health to the economy. EEA also measures and evaluates the impact of health financing and other policies on universal health coverage, specifically on equity and on financial protection. All these are accomplished by leading, advocating, and developing methods, tools, and standards, by increasing country capacity, and by providing technical assistance to countries to produce and to use economic evidence.

Our work

Health Technology Assessment and Benefit Package Design

This includes work on Generalized Cost-Effectiveness Analysis, WHO-CHOICE, the UHC Compendium, and the global survey on HTA and Health Benefit Packages.

Costing and Technical Efficiency

This includes work on global price tags, such as that for Sustainable Development Goal 3 and for primary health care, work on technical efficiency of health systems, and a global database for prices, quantities and more. Tools available include the OneHealth Tool and AccessMod.

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Health and the Economy

This line of work takes a broader perspective on health and the health sector, looking at the economic burden of ill-health and the value of investing in health systems.

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Health Taxes

This encompasses a broad range of work including cost-effectiveness analyses, parliamentary outreach and management of an inter-agency coalition on health taxes.

Financial protection, equity and poverty

Financial protection is about detaching people’s direct payments for health care from their ability to pay for health care. Understanding if this is happening, to what extent, why and who is particularly affected is critical to guide evidence-based policies and actions. WHO, across all levels of the organization is committed to: Support Member States in monitoring financial protection and producing country, regional and global reports on financial protection.

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WHO menu of cost-effective interventions for mental health

IntroductionIn 2019, the Seventy-second World Health Assembly requested the WHO Director-General to prepare a menu of policy options and cost-effective...

From value for money to value-based health services: a twenty-first century shift

Health policy makers around the world have long shown interest in the value created by health systems and this preoccupation will likely only intensify...

Institutionalizing health technology assessment mechanisms: a how to guide

It is increasing apparent that countries are finding it difficult  to finance their universal health coverage goals.  They must generate more...

Principles of health benefit packages

No country in the world is able to provide every health service to everyone. Choices must be made on the path to universal health coverage.  By changing...

Sustaining lives and livelihoods: a decision framework for calibrating social and movement measures during the COVID-19 pandemic

Social and physical distancing and restrictions on international travel (thereafter “social and movement measures”) have been introduced to...

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Economic Evaluation and Analysis (EEA)
Department of Health systems Governance and Financing (HGF)
World Health Organization
20 Avenue Appia
CH 1211 Geneva 27
Switzerland