Table 4 Objectives of the national health financing policy
From: National health financing policy in Eritrea: a survey of preliminary considerations
NHFP objectives | Number of respondents |
|---|---|
To secure a level of funding needed to achieve desired health goals and objectives stated in the National Health Policy in a sustainable manner. | 15 |
To ensure equitable financial access to quality health services | 13 |
To ensure that people are protected from financial catastrophe and impoverishment as a result of using health services | 11 |
To ensure efficiency in the allocation and use of health sector resources | 14 |
To ensure that partner support for the implementation of the NHP is aligned, harmonized and coordinated | 12 |
To ensure that provider payment mechanisms chosen create positive incentives for providing quality preventive and curative services, responding to non-medical legitimate expectations of service users, and containing the cost of health care | 11 |
To empower providers to work towards privatization in phases | 1 |
Ensure that the destitute part of the society has access to basic health services | 1 |
May include exemptions for preventive and curative care for the segment of the population unable to pay | 1 |