A Policy Course On “From Evidence To Action: The Application Of Health Technology Assessment, Priority Setting, And Strategic Purchasing For Population Health In Enhancing Health System Performance And Advancing Universal Health Coverage”

Globally, up to 40% of healthcare spending is wasted due to inefficiencies in national healthcare systems, such as funding of inappropriate health interventions, overtreatment, inefficient coordination of healthcare services across providers, pricing failures, administrative waste and fraud. Such inadequate and unproductive spending not only exacerbates patient’s catastrophic health spending, but can also hinder progress towards Universal Health Coverage (UHC). Prioritizing efficient health spending will be required to achieve UHC, as countries face difficult decisions on how best to integrate and finance effective, innovative technologies & health services into health benefit packages (HBP), and make the necessary trade-offs between competing health priorities for the population.