Précis of Open and inclusive: fair processes for financing universal health coverage

Voorhoeve, Alex ORCID: 0000-0003-3240-3835, Dale, Elina and Gopinathan, Unni (2025) Précis of Open and inclusive: fair processes for financing universal health coverage. Health Economics, Policy and Law. ISSN 1744-1331

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Abstract

We summarise key messages from the World Bank Report Open and Inclusive: Fair Processes for Financing Universal Health Coverage. A central lesson of the Report is that in decision-making on the path to Universal Health Coverage (UHC), procedural fairness matters alongside substantive fairness. Decision systems should be assessed using a complete conception of procedural fairness that embodies core commitments to impartial and equal consideration of interests and perspectives. These commitments demand that comprehensive information is gathered and disclosed and that justifications for policies are publicly debated; that participation in decision-making is enabled; and that these characteristics of the decision system are institutionalised rather than up to the good will of decision-makers. Procedural fairness can improve equity in outcomes, raise legitimacy and trust, and can help make reforms last. While improving procedural fairness can be costly and there are barriers to achieving it, the range of instruments that countries at varying levels of income and institutional capacity have used with some success shows that, in many contexts, advances in procedural fairness in health financing are possible and worthwhile.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	© 2025 The Author(s)
Divisions:	Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method
Subjects:	R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine
Date Deposited:	19 Dec 2024 08:45
Last Modified:	20 Jan 2025 12:45
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/126502

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