Global monitoring report on financial protection in health 2021

Download or read book Global monitoring report on financial protection in health 2021 written by World Health Organization and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2021-12-10 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 2021 Global monitoring report on financial protection in health shows that before the COVID-19 pandemic, the world was off-track to reduce financial hardship due to health expenditures because trends in catastrophic health spending were going in the wrong direction and the number of people incurring impoverishing health spending remained unacceptably high (Chapter 1). Chapter 2 summarizes emerging evidence on the consequence of the pandemic and the related macroeconomic and fiscal crisis that points to the likely worsening of financial protection for households, particularly as a result of declining income and consumption, along with rising poverty and inequality.