{"id":16581,"date":"2018-08-10T09:56:36","date_gmt":"2018-08-10T08:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.femise.org\/?p=16581"},"modified":"2019-02-06T15:30:31","modified_gmt":"2019-02-06T14:30:31","slug":"assessing-the-macroeconomic-and-welfare-effects-of-universal-health-coverage-in-palestine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.femise.org\/en\/slideshow-en\/assessing-the-macroeconomic-and-welfare-effects-of-universal-health-coverage-in-palestine\/","title":{"rendered":"Assessing the Macroeconomic and Welfare Effects of Universal Health Coverage in Palestine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-16579 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.femise.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/couv-FEM42-15.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"219\" height=\"309\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.femise.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/couv-FEM42-15.jpg 1240w, https:\/\/www.femise.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/couv-FEM42-15-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/www.femise.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/couv-FEM42-15-768x1086.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.femise.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/couv-FEM42-15-724x1024.jpg 724w, https:\/\/www.femise.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/couv-FEM42-15-624x882.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 219px) 100vw, 219px\" \/>The<em> implementation of <\/em>\u201cUniversal Health Coverage\u201d (UHC)<em> poses serious challenges. Some of these stem from <\/em>the macro-fiscal space considerations while others relate to the micro-behavioral\u00a0sphere.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>This project seeks to assess the macro-fiscal conduciveness of UHC-oriented reforms in Palestine<\/strong><\/span> using a dynamic microsimulation-based Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) approach. Overall, UHC-oriented reform appears to enhance social welfare and economic growth. However, a parallel expansion in the breadth and width of coverage can have a sizeable budgetary impact, with fiscal deficit representing 14% of the GDP, of which about 2% is due to UHC. The latter would absorb about 10% of GDP, 15% of public spending and 57.4% of public spending on health. Under conditions of narrow fiscal space, an additional annual growth of 3.0% is required to progress along all the dimensions of UHC. A set of policy measures, which can help achieve UHC in a financially sustainable manner is advanced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The implementation of \u201cUniversal Health Coverage\u201d (UHC) poses serious challenges. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":16578,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[230,39,7,4,11],"tags":[877,931,932,933,930,491,929],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.femise.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16581"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.femise.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.femise.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femise.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femise.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16581"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.femise.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17573,"href":"https:\/\/www.femise.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16581\/revisions\/17573"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femise.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.femise.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femise.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femise.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}