Transition of Health Financing, Cost Risk-Sharing and Risk-Pooling Models in the Health Sector: A Systematic Review (1990 - 2019)

نویسندگان

1 Department of Community Medicine, Preventive Medicine and Public Health Research Center, Psychosocial Health Research Institute, School of Medicine, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

2 School of Economics and Management, Tarbiat Modares University (TMU), Tehran, Iran

3 Department of Economic Development and Planning, School of Economics and Management, Tarbiat Modares University (TMU), Tehran, Iran

4 Economic Research Center (ERC), Tarbiat Modarres University (TMU), Tehran, Iran

5 Department of Economic Development and Planning, School of Economics and Management, Tarbiat Modares University (TMU), Tehran, Iran

doi
10.5812/ircmj.63215
چکیده

Context: Health expenditures in the world undergo increasing growth. According to the WHO Report (2000), health financing is one of the main functions of the health system that has a significant impact on its other functions.Objectives: The aim of this study is the systematic review of the changes and shifting of health care financing models and cost burden risk-sharing mechanisms in health systems over the past three decades.Data Sources: In this systematic review, data sources of studies on health financing realm in different countries were investigated using a series of keywords, including “health financing”, “health expenditure “, “model”, “financing mechanism/arrangement”, and “cost risk-sharing” from the most important databases such as Google Scholar, Web of Science, Scopus, PubMed, and the Iranian databases, such as Magiran, IranMedx, SID, in 1990 - 2019.Study Selection: According to PRISMA Flow Diagram, with application of inclusion and exclusion criteria (time limitations, lan- guage restrictions, lack of related title abstract, full text), among 86,611 documents, 150 studies were selected. Two pairs of review author’s independently extracted data and assessed the risk of bias.Results: The systematic review of different evidence suggests that with economic growth, since 2001 to 2014, global health expendi- ture trend was increased from $ 3.8 trillion (in 2001) to $ 9.2 trillion (in 2014) and is estimated to reach $ 24.2 trillion (in 2040). Also, all the evidence indicates a tangible change, a 10% increase in public and pre-payments health expenditures and a 16% reduction in private expenditures, in the global health financing model in the current period up to 2040.Conclusions: The review of regional and global studies, across countries and during the time, shows that in the last three decades, health financing systems are in a transition towards pervasive (with high financial risk-sharing) public health policies in the world