Introduction to Healthcare Financing_MPH

What is the main aim of healthcare financing?

• Funding for medical research and development

• Allocating resources for healthcare services

• Providing financial protection against unpredictable catastrophic medical care costs

• Managing healthcare providers' salaries

What is the primary source of funding for healthcare in Malaysia?

• Health insurance

• General revenues

• Out-of-pocket payments

• International aid and grants

• Ear-marked taxes

Health financing is a core function of health systems that can enable progress towards universal health coverage.

• Yes

• No

What is/are the principle(s) of health financing according to the World Health Organization (WHO)?

• Raise sufficient and sustainable revenues

• Manage revenues to pool health risks

• Ensure the purchase of health services in an allocative and technically efficient manner

• Financial protection against unpredictable catastrophic medical care costs

What are the main functions of healthcare financing?

• purchasing of services

• revenue collections

• planning and distributing funds for healthcare services

• pooling of resources

Private health insurance is

• risk-rated
• non-risk rated

The fourth party introduced in the model of mandatory social insurance is

• consumer

• funding organisation

• regulator

• provider

Problems with out of pocket payment are:

• regressive

• no risk sharing

• provides more preventive care

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Which of the following is/are true regarding general revenues as a mechanism of healthcare financing?

• Regressive way of financing

• Protect the poor from financial catastrophe

• Non-sustainable

Regarding incremental budgeting:

• managers have control of the line items

• convenient to monitor expenditure

• outcome based approach

• need to do program evaluation