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Covid-19 and the sustainability of health financing: anticipated effects and policy options

9 February 2021 12:00 – 13:00 CET

Tuesday 09 February 2021 from 12:00-13:00 CET

While the initial response to the COVID-19 pandemic was focused on preventing and mitigating a public health crisis, the situation has, in many countries, rapidly spiralled into a full blown economic and public finance crisis. This has serious implications for health financing at a time when greater resources are needed for public health. Countries have some room to make extra financial allocations available to the health sector, but the potential impact on budgets through 2021 remain unclear. What can we learn from previous financial crises about sustainable health financing? How can governments strengthen health financing during the pandemic? Join us in this webinar to learn more about sustainability and crisis budgets during the pandemic.

Speakers

Jon Cylus, European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies (keynote)

Triin Habicht, WHO Regional Office for Europe

Steve Thomas, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

Sarah Thomson, WHO Regional Office for Europe

Facilitators

Ewout van Ginneken & Erica Richardson (European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies)

This webinar is part of a series of webinars which draws lessons from country experiences based on the COVID-19 Health System Response Monitor (HSRM) - a joint undertaking with the WHO Regional Office for Europe, the European Commission and the European Observatory. The COVID-19 HSRM builds on the expertise of the Health Systems and Policy Monitor network and the WHO Country Offices and the knowledge and work of colleagues in the Regional Office and DG SANTE who are dealing with the pandemic and supporting countries. The webinar series is indebted to them all.

Webinar Recording

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