[proletar] Re: One billion people cannot afford healthcare - WHO

2010-11-25 Terurut Topik johny_indon


gua cuman bilang, kalo mau ngasih informasi berdasarkan 
angka statistik itu jangan suka milih2, buka semuanya.

elu begitu girang melihat indonesia ada di posisi 92, tapi 
ngga berani bilang bahwa russia, yg notabene ex negara superpower,  posisinya 
jauh dibawah indonesia.

elu sengaja menyembunyikan fakta lain dan berharap sebagian 
fakta yg elu sodorkan di sini bisa bikin elu orgasme.

dasar kakek goblog.

--- In proletar@yahoogroups.com, Jusfiq kesayangan.al...@... wrote:

 
 Cara berfikir manusia yang otaknya sudah rusak karena dididik oleh bapaknya 
 bangsat biadab yang kejam, keji, zalim, buas lagi ganas dan yang telah 
 tega-teganya memperlakukan johny-indon seperti anjing budug yang ditendangnya 
 hingga terkencing-kencing: dia bukannnya melihat kekurangan Indonesia yang 
 perlu diperbaiki, tujuan lebih bagus yang perlu dicapain, ketinggalan yang 
 perlu disadari agar kemajuan bisa dicapai 
 
 Nggak  dia melihat kelebihan Indonesia dibidang jaminan kesehatan dari 
 negeri yang lebih terkebelakang...
 
 Rasa suka puas diri manusia debil kayak kambing congek lagi cacingan  yang 
 tidak mau lebih maju.
 
 
 
 --- In proletar@yahoogroups.com, johny_indon johny_indon@ wrote:
 
  
  
  mestinya ditambahin dong:
  tapi jauh lebih baik dibanding china, india, afrika selatan, vietnam, 
  dan bahkan negara kebanggaan si wawan: russia.
  
  dasar si juspik tukang milih2.
  
  --- In proletar@yahoogroups.com, Jusfiq kesayangan.allah@ wrote:
  
   Lihat: 
   
   http://www.photius.com/rankings/healthranks.html
   
   Indonesia no.92.
   
   Dibawah Bangladesh, Macedonia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Lebanon...
   
   
   --- In proletar@yahoogroups.com, sunny ambon@ wrote:
   
Refleksi : Kira-kira berapa banyak dari penduduk Indonesia yang tidak 
mampu mendapat pelayanan kesehatan  sepatutnya? 


http://arabnews.com/world/article197997.ece

One billion people cannot afford healthcare - WHO
By KATE KELLAND | HEALTH 



Published: Nov 22, 2010 12:52 Updated: Nov 22, 2010 12:52 

LONDON: Around a billion people cannot afford any health services, and 
paying for healthcare pushes about 100 million people a year into 
poverty, the World Health Organization said on Monday.

In a global report on financing health systems, the United Nations 
health body said all countries, rich and poor, could do more toward 
getting universal coverage and urged them to think about ways to 
increase efficiency and use new taxes and innovative fund-raising 
measures to boost access to healthcare.

For many, health services just don't exist, for others they are not 
affordable. When they're not affordable it means you either choose not 
to use them or you suffer severe financial hardship, David Evans, the 
WHO's director of health systems financing, said in a briefing on the 
report's findings.

The World Health Report 2010 lays out steps countries could take to 
raise more funds and reduce financial barriers to obtaining healthcare, 
and to make health services more efficient.

It found that to stop payment for healthcare impoverishing people, 
direct, out-of-pocket payments should make up less than 15 to 20 
percent of a country's total health spending.

Yet currently, in 33 mainly low- and middle-income countries, direct 
payments from individuals receiving healthcare still account for more 
than 50 percent of total health spending.

It suggested governments should look at diversifying sources of revenue 
from levies such as sin taxes on products like tobacco and alcohol, 
currency transaction taxes, and national solidarity taxes on certain 
sectors.

If India were to implement a levy of 0.005 percent on foreign exchange 
transactions, it could raise $370 million per year, the report said. 
Gabon raised $30 million for health in 2009 by imposing a 1.5 percent 
levy on companies handling remittances and a 10 percent tax on mobile 
phone operators.



Health of financial ruin?

WHO director general Margaret Chan wrote in a foreword to the report 
that no one in need of healthcare, whether curative or preventive, 
should risk financial ruin as a result.

As the world grapples with economic slowdown, globalization of 
diseases ... and growing demands for chronic care ... the need for 
universal health coverage, and a strategy for financing it, has never 
been greater, the report said.

There is no magic bullet to achieving universal access. Nevertheless, 
a wide range of experiences from around the world suggests that 
countries can move forward faster.

The WHO said that typically, 20 to 40 percent of health spending is 
wasted, often through spending on expensive but unnecessary drugs, 
hospital-related inefficiency and poor use of skilled 

Re: [proletar] Re: One billion people cannot afford healthcare - WHO

2010-11-25 Terurut Topik Roman Proteus
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Subject: [proletar] Re: One billion people cannot afford healthcare - WHO



gua cuman bilang, kalo mau ngasih informasi berdasarkan 
angka statistik itu jangan suka milih2, buka semuanya.

elu begitu girang melihat indonesia ada di posisi 92, tapi 
ngga berani bilang bahwa russia, yg notabene ex negara superpower,  posisinya 
jauh dibawah indonesia.

elu sengaja menyembunyikan fakta lain dan berharap sebagian 
fakta yg elu sodorkan di sini bisa bikin elu orgasme.

dasar kakek goblog.

--- In proletar@yahoogroups.com, Jusfiq kesayangan.al...@... wrote:

 
 Cara berfikir manusia yang otaknya sudah rusak karena dididik oleh bapaknya 
 bangsat biadab yang kejam, keji, zalim, buas lagi ganas dan yang telah 
 tega-teganya memperlakukan johny-indon seperti anjing budug yang ditendangnya 
 hingga terkencing-kencing: dia bukannnya melihat kekurangan Indonesia yang 
 perlu diperbaiki, tujuan lebih bagus yang perlu dicapain, ketinggalan yang 
 perlu disadari agar kemajuan bisa dicapai 
 
 Nggak  dia melihat kelebihan Indonesia dibidang jaminan kesehatan dari 
 negeri yang lebih terkebelakang...
 
 Rasa suka puas diri manusia debil kayak kambing congek lagi cacingan  yang 
 tidak mau lebih maju.
 
 
 
 --- In proletar@yahoogroups.com, johny_indon johny_indon@ wrote:
 
  
  
  mestinya ditambahin dong:
  tapi jauh lebih baik dibanding china, india, afrika selatan, vietnam, 
  dan bahkan negara kebanggaan si wawan: russia.
  
  dasar si juspik tukang milih2.
  
  --- In proletar@yahoogroups.com, Jusfiq kesayangan.allah@ wrote:
  
   Lihat: 
   
   http://www.photius.com/rankings/healthranks.html
   
   Indonesia no.92.
   
   Dibawah Bangladesh, Macedonia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Lebanon...
   
   
   --- In proletar@yahoogroups.com, sunny ambon@ wrote:
   
Refleksi : Kira-kira berapa banyak dari penduduk Indonesia yang tidak 
mampu mendapat pelayanan kesehatan  sepatutnya? 


http://arabnews.com/world/article197997.ece

One billion people cannot afford healthcare - WHO
By KATE KELLAND | HEALTH 



Published: Nov 22, 2010 12:52 Updated: Nov 22, 2010 12:52 

LONDON: Around a billion people cannot afford any health services, and 
paying for healthcare pushes about 100 million people a year into 
poverty, the World Health Organization said on Monday.

In a global report on financing health systems, the United Nations 
health body said all countries, rich and poor, could do more toward 
getting universal coverage and urged them to think about ways to 
increase efficiency and use new taxes and innovative fund-raising 
measures to boost access to healthcare.

For many, health services just don't exist, for others they are not 
affordable. When they're not affordable it means you either choose not 
to use them or you suffer severe financial hardship, David Evans, the 
WHO's director of health systems financing, said in a briefing on the 
report's findings.

The World Health Report 2010 lays out steps countries could take to 
raise more funds and reduce financial barriers to obtaining healthcare, 
and to make health services more efficient.

It found that to stop payment for healthcare impoverishing people, 
direct, out-of-pocket payments should make up less than 15 to 20 
percent of a country's total health spending.

Yet currently, in 33 mainly low- and middle-income countries, direct 
payments from individuals receiving healthcare still account for more 
than 50 percent of total health spending.

It suggested governments should look at diversifying sources of revenue 
from levies such as sin taxes on products like tobacco and alcohol, 
currency transaction taxes, and national solidarity taxes on certain 
sectors.

If India were to implement a levy of 0.005 percent on foreign exchange 
transactions, it could raise $370 million per year, the report said. 
Gabon raised $30 million for health in 2009 by imposing a 1.5 percent 
levy on companies handling remittances and a 10 percent tax on mobile 
phone operators.



Health of financial ruin?

WHO director general Margaret Chan wrote in a foreword to the report 
that no one in need of healthcare, whether curative or preventive, 
should risk financial ruin as a result.

As the world grapples with economic slowdown, globalization of 
diseases ... and growing demands for chronic care ... the need for 
universal health coverage, and a strategy for financing it, has never 
been greater, the report said

[proletar] Re: One billion people cannot afford healthcare - WHO

2010-11-25 Terurut Topik Jusfiq

Otak johny-indon ini sudah rusak berat akibat asuhan bapaknya yang adalah 
serdadu yang dididik untuk membunuh manusia dan yang adalah juga manusia 
biadab, kejam, keji, zalim, buas lagi ganas dan yang telah tega-teganya 
memperlakukan anaknya sendiri seperti anjing budug yang ditendangnya hingga 
terkencing-kencing. 

Dan nggak heran kalo johny-indon itu kalo kirim posting kesini juga suka kasi 
unjuk otaknya yang sudah rusak berat dan belepotan najis yang busuk, nista lagi 
menjijijikkan.

Pertama johny-indon ini menipu: saya tidak menyembunyikan fakta, karena saya 
berikan link beritanya yang lengkap.

Tiap orang bisa melihatnya.

Kedua: diposting yang dimaksud saya TIDAK sekedar menyampaikan informasi, yang 
ada di link yang saya berikan, tapi menarik perhatian orang yang punya otak ke 
kenyataan yang ada di informasi yang saya sertakan: didaftr itu Indonesia 
berada dibawah Bengladesh.

Dan dengan menarik perhatian orang akan kenyataan itu saya hakekatnya 
menunjukkan apa yang perlu dicapai Indonesia dibidang kesehatan.

Ketiga: jadi jelas bahwa saya tidak merasa girang melihat Indonesia berada di 
no 92 tapi ikut merasa prihatin.
 
Kebusukan dan kenistaan isi otak johny-indo ini sungguh menjijikkan.



--- In proletar@yahoogroups.com, johny_indon johny_in...@... wrote:

 
 
 gua cuman bilang, kalo mau ngasih informasi berdasarkan 
 angka statistik itu jangan suka milih2, buka semuanya.
 
 elu begitu girang melihat indonesia ada di posisi 92, tapi 
 ngga berani bilang bahwa russia, yg notabene ex negara superpower,  posisinya 
 jauh dibawah indonesia.
 
 elu sengaja menyembunyikan fakta lain dan berharap sebagian 
 fakta yg elu sodorkan di sini bisa bikin elu orgasme.
 
 dasar kakek goblog.
 
 --- In proletar@yahoogroups.com, Jusfiq kesayangan.allah@ wrote:
 
  
  Cara berfikir manusia yang otaknya sudah rusak karena dididik oleh bapaknya 
  bangsat biadab yang kejam, keji, zalim, buas lagi ganas dan yang telah 
  tega-teganya memperlakukan johny-indon seperti anjing budug yang 
  ditendangnya hingga terkencing-kencing: dia bukannnya melihat kekurangan 
  Indonesia yang perlu diperbaiki, tujuan lebih bagus yang perlu dicapain, 
  ketinggalan yang perlu disadari agar kemajuan bisa dicapai 
  
  Nggak  dia melihat kelebihan Indonesia dibidang jaminan kesehatan dari 
  negeri yang lebih terkebelakang...
  
  Rasa suka puas diri manusia debil kayak kambing congek lagi cacingan  yang 
  tidak mau lebih maju.
  
  
  
  --- In proletar@yahoogroups.com, johny_indon johny_indon@ wrote:
  
   
   
   mestinya ditambahin dong:
   tapi jauh lebih baik dibanding china, india, afrika selatan, vietnam, 
   dan bahkan negara kebanggaan si wawan: russia.
   
   dasar si juspik tukang milih2.
   
   --- In proletar@yahoogroups.com, Jusfiq kesayangan.allah@ wrote:
   
Lihat: 

http://www.photius.com/rankings/healthranks.html

Indonesia no.92.

Dibawah Bangladesh, Macedonia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Lebanon...


--- In proletar@yahoogroups.com, sunny ambon@ wrote:

 Refleksi : Kira-kira berapa banyak dari penduduk Indonesia yang tidak 
 mampu mendapat pelayanan kesehatan  sepatutnya? 
 
 
 http://arabnews.com/world/article197997.ece
 
 One billion people cannot afford healthcare - WHO
 By KATE KELLAND | HEALTH 
 
 
 
 Published: Nov 22, 2010 12:52 Updated: Nov 22, 2010 12:52 
 
 LONDON: Around a billion people cannot afford any health services, 
 and paying for healthcare pushes about 100 million people a year into 
 poverty, the World Health Organization said on Monday.
 
 In a global report on financing health systems, the United Nations 
 health body said all countries, rich and poor, could do more toward 
 getting universal coverage and urged them to think about ways to 
 increase efficiency and use new taxes and innovative fund-raising 
 measures to boost access to healthcare.
 
 For many, health services just don't exist, for others they are not 
 affordable. When they're not affordable it means you either choose 
 not to use them or you suffer severe financial hardship, David 
 Evans, the WHO's director of health systems financing, said in a 
 briefing on the report's findings.
 
 The World Health Report 2010 lays out steps countries could take to 
 raise more funds and reduce financial barriers to obtaining 
 healthcare, and to make health services more efficient.
 
 It found that to stop payment for healthcare impoverishing people, 
 direct, out-of-pocket payments should make up less than 15 to 20 
 percent of a country's total health spending.
 
 Yet currently, in 33 mainly low- and middle-income countries, direct 
 payments from individuals receiving healthcare still account for more 
 than 50 percent of total health spending.
 
 It suggested governments should look at diversifying sources of 
   

[proletar] Re: One billion people cannot afford healthcare - WHO

2010-11-24 Terurut Topik johny_indon


mestinya ditambahin dong:
tapi jauh lebih baik dibanding china, india, afrika selatan, vietnam, 
dan bahkan negara kebanggaan si wawan: russia.

dasar si juspik tukang milih2.

--- In proletar@yahoogroups.com, Jusfiq kesayangan.al...@... wrote:

 Lihat: 
 
 http://www.photius.com/rankings/healthranks.html
 
 Indonesia no.92.
 
 Dibawah Bangladesh, Macedonia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Lebanon...
 
 
 --- In proletar@yahoogroups.com, sunny ambon@ wrote:
 
  Refleksi : Kira-kira berapa banyak dari penduduk Indonesia yang tidak mampu 
  mendapat pelayanan kesehatan  sepatutnya? 
  
  
  http://arabnews.com/world/article197997.ece
  
  One billion people cannot afford healthcare - WHO
  By KATE KELLAND | HEALTH 
  
  
  
  Published: Nov 22, 2010 12:52 Updated: Nov 22, 2010 12:52 
  
  LONDON: Around a billion people cannot afford any health services, and 
  paying for healthcare pushes about 100 million people a year into poverty, 
  the World Health Organization said on Monday.
  
  In a global report on financing health systems, the United Nations health 
  body said all countries, rich and poor, could do more toward getting 
  universal coverage and urged them to think about ways to increase 
  efficiency and use new taxes and innovative fund-raising measures to boost 
  access to healthcare.
  
  For many, health services just don't exist, for others they are not 
  affordable. When they're not affordable it means you either choose not to 
  use them or you suffer severe financial hardship, David Evans, the WHO's 
  director of health systems financing, said in a briefing on the report's 
  findings.
  
  The World Health Report 2010 lays out steps countries could take to raise 
  more funds and reduce financial barriers to obtaining healthcare, and to 
  make health services more efficient.
  
  It found that to stop payment for healthcare impoverishing people, direct, 
  out-of-pocket payments should make up less than 15 to 20 percent of a 
  country's total health spending.
  
  Yet currently, in 33 mainly low- and middle-income countries, direct 
  payments from individuals receiving healthcare still account for more than 
  50 percent of total health spending.
  
  It suggested governments should look at diversifying sources of revenue 
  from levies such as sin taxes on products like tobacco and alcohol, 
  currency transaction taxes, and national solidarity taxes on certain 
  sectors.
  
  If India were to implement a levy of 0.005 percent on foreign exchange 
  transactions, it could raise $370 million per year, the report said. Gabon 
  raised $30 million for health in 2009 by imposing a 1.5 percent levy on 
  companies handling remittances and a 10 percent tax on mobile phone 
  operators.
  
  
  
  Health of financial ruin?
  
  WHO director general Margaret Chan wrote in a foreword to the report that 
  no one in need of healthcare, whether curative or preventive, should risk 
  financial ruin as a result.
  
  As the world grapples with economic slowdown, globalization of diseases 
  ... and growing demands for chronic care ... the need for universal health 
  coverage, and a strategy for financing it, has never been greater, the 
  report said.
  
  There is no magic bullet to achieving universal access. Nevertheless, a 
  wide range of experiences from around the world suggests that countries can 
  move forward faster.
  
  The WHO said that typically, 20 to 40 percent of health spending is wasted, 
  often through spending on expensive but unnecessary drugs, hospital-related 
  inefficiency and poor use of skilled professionals' time.
  
  More than half all medicines globally are prescribed, dispensed, or sold 
  inappropriately and half of all patients fail to take their medication as 
  prescribed. Better use of medicines could save nations up to 5.0 percent of 
  health spending, it said.
  
  To improve efficiency, it suggested 10 areas where changes could be made, 
  including reducing unnecessary spending on drugs, targeting medicines 
  properly and adopting a generics policy whereby any branded medicine for 
  which there is an equally effective generic version is substituted.
  
  The report found some countries pay far more for medicines than others - in 
  some places prices are up to 67 times the international average. France's 
  strategy of generic substitution led to savings equivalent to $1.94 billion 
  in 2008, it said.
  
  
  [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
 







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[proletar] Re: One billion people cannot afford healthcare - WHO

2010-11-24 Terurut Topik Jusfiq

Cara berfikir manusia yang otaknya sudah rusak karena dididik oleh bapaknya 
bangsat biadab yang kejam, keji, zalim, buas lagi ganas dan yang telah 
tega-teganya memperlakukan johny-indon seperti anjing budug yang ditendangnya 
hingga terkencing-kencing: dia bukannnya melihat kekurangan Indonesia yang 
perlu diperbaiki, tujuan lebih bagus yang perlu dicapain, ketinggalan yang 
perlu disadari agar kemajuan bisa dicapai 

Nggak  dia melihat kelebihan Indonesia dibidang jaminan kesehatan dari 
negeri yang lebih terkebelakang...

Rasa suka puas diri manusia debil kayak kambing congek lagi cacingan  yang 
tidak mau lebih maju.



--- In proletar@yahoogroups.com, johny_indon johny_in...@... wrote:

 
 
 mestinya ditambahin dong:
 tapi jauh lebih baik dibanding china, india, afrika selatan, vietnam, 
 dan bahkan negara kebanggaan si wawan: russia.
 
 dasar si juspik tukang milih2.
 
 --- In proletar@yahoogroups.com, Jusfiq kesayangan.allah@ wrote:
 
  Lihat: 
  
  http://www.photius.com/rankings/healthranks.html
  
  Indonesia no.92.
  
  Dibawah Bangladesh, Macedonia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Lebanon...
  
  
  --- In proletar@yahoogroups.com, sunny ambon@ wrote:
  
   Refleksi : Kira-kira berapa banyak dari penduduk Indonesia yang tidak 
   mampu mendapat pelayanan kesehatan  sepatutnya? 
   
   
   http://arabnews.com/world/article197997.ece
   
   One billion people cannot afford healthcare - WHO
   By KATE KELLAND | HEALTH 
   
   
   
   Published: Nov 22, 2010 12:52 Updated: Nov 22, 2010 12:52 
   
   LONDON: Around a billion people cannot afford any health services, and 
   paying for healthcare pushes about 100 million people a year into 
   poverty, the World Health Organization said on Monday.
   
   In a global report on financing health systems, the United Nations health 
   body said all countries, rich and poor, could do more toward getting 
   universal coverage and urged them to think about ways to increase 
   efficiency and use new taxes and innovative fund-raising measures to 
   boost access to healthcare.
   
   For many, health services just don't exist, for others they are not 
   affordable. When they're not affordable it means you either choose not to 
   use them or you suffer severe financial hardship, David Evans, the WHO's 
   director of health systems financing, said in a briefing on the report's 
   findings.
   
   The World Health Report 2010 lays out steps countries could take to raise 
   more funds and reduce financial barriers to obtaining healthcare, and to 
   make health services more efficient.
   
   It found that to stop payment for healthcare impoverishing people, 
   direct, out-of-pocket payments should make up less than 15 to 20 percent 
   of a country's total health spending.
   
   Yet currently, in 33 mainly low- and middle-income countries, direct 
   payments from individuals receiving healthcare still account for more 
   than 50 percent of total health spending.
   
   It suggested governments should look at diversifying sources of revenue 
   from levies such as sin taxes on products like tobacco and alcohol, 
   currency transaction taxes, and national solidarity taxes on certain 
   sectors.
   
   If India were to implement a levy of 0.005 percent on foreign exchange 
   transactions, it could raise $370 million per year, the report said. 
   Gabon raised $30 million for health in 2009 by imposing a 1.5 percent 
   levy on companies handling remittances and a 10 percent tax on mobile 
   phone operators.
   
   
   
   Health of financial ruin?
   
   WHO director general Margaret Chan wrote in a foreword to the report that 
   no one in need of healthcare, whether curative or preventive, should 
   risk financial ruin as a result.
   
   As the world grapples with economic slowdown, globalization of diseases 
   ... and growing demands for chronic care ... the need for universal 
   health coverage, and a strategy for financing it, has never been 
   greater, the report said.
   
   There is no magic bullet to achieving universal access. Nevertheless, a 
   wide range of experiences from around the world suggests that countries 
   can move forward faster.
   
   The WHO said that typically, 20 to 40 percent of health spending is 
   wasted, often through spending on expensive but unnecessary drugs, 
   hospital-related inefficiency and poor use of skilled professionals' time.
   
   More than half all medicines globally are prescribed, dispensed, or sold 
   inappropriately and half of all patients fail to take their medication as 
   prescribed. Better use of medicines could save nations up to 5.0 percent 
   of health spending, it said.
   
   To improve efficiency, it suggested 10 areas where changes could be made, 
   including reducing unnecessary spending on drugs, targeting medicines 
   properly and adopting a generics policy whereby any branded medicine for 
   which there is an equally effective generic version is substituted.
   
   

[proletar] Re: One billion people cannot afford healthcare - WHO

2010-11-23 Terurut Topik Jusfiq
Lihat: 

http://www.photius.com/rankings/healthranks.html

Indonesia no.92.

Dibawah Bangladesh, Macedonia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Lebanon...


--- In proletar@yahoogroups.com, sunny am...@... wrote:

 Refleksi : Kira-kira berapa banyak dari penduduk Indonesia yang tidak mampu 
 mendapat pelayanan kesehatan  sepatutnya? 
 
 
 http://arabnews.com/world/article197997.ece
 
 One billion people cannot afford healthcare - WHO
 By KATE KELLAND | HEALTH 
 
 
 
 Published: Nov 22, 2010 12:52 Updated: Nov 22, 2010 12:52 
 
 LONDON: Around a billion people cannot afford any health services, and paying 
 for healthcare pushes about 100 million people a year into poverty, the World 
 Health Organization said on Monday.
 
 In a global report on financing health systems, the United Nations health 
 body said all countries, rich and poor, could do more toward getting 
 universal coverage and urged them to think about ways to increase efficiency 
 and use new taxes and innovative fund-raising measures to boost access to 
 healthcare.
 
 For many, health services just don't exist, for others they are not 
 affordable. When they're not affordable it means you either choose not to use 
 them or you suffer severe financial hardship, David Evans, the WHO's 
 director of health systems financing, said in a briefing on the report's 
 findings.
 
 The World Health Report 2010 lays out steps countries could take to raise 
 more funds and reduce financial barriers to obtaining healthcare, and to make 
 health services more efficient.
 
 It found that to stop payment for healthcare impoverishing people, direct, 
 out-of-pocket payments should make up less than 15 to 20 percent of a 
 country's total health spending.
 
 Yet currently, in 33 mainly low- and middle-income countries, direct payments 
 from individuals receiving healthcare still account for more than 50 percent 
 of total health spending.
 
 It suggested governments should look at diversifying sources of revenue from 
 levies such as sin taxes on products like tobacco and alcohol, currency 
 transaction taxes, and national solidarity taxes on certain sectors.
 
 If India were to implement a levy of 0.005 percent on foreign exchange 
 transactions, it could raise $370 million per year, the report said. Gabon 
 raised $30 million for health in 2009 by imposing a 1.5 percent levy on 
 companies handling remittances and a 10 percent tax on mobile phone operators.
 
 
 
 Health of financial ruin?
 
 WHO director general Margaret Chan wrote in a foreword to the report that no 
 one in need of healthcare, whether curative or preventive, should risk 
 financial ruin as a result.
 
 As the world grapples with economic slowdown, globalization of diseases ... 
 and growing demands for chronic care ... the need for universal health 
 coverage, and a strategy for financing it, has never been greater, the 
 report said.
 
 There is no magic bullet to achieving universal access. Nevertheless, a wide 
 range of experiences from around the world suggests that countries can move 
 forward faster.
 
 The WHO said that typically, 20 to 40 percent of health spending is wasted, 
 often through spending on expensive but unnecessary drugs, hospital-related 
 inefficiency and poor use of skilled professionals' time.
 
 More than half all medicines globally are prescribed, dispensed, or sold 
 inappropriately and half of all patients fail to take their medication as 
 prescribed. Better use of medicines could save nations up to 5.0 percent of 
 health spending, it said.
 
 To improve efficiency, it suggested 10 areas where changes could be made, 
 including reducing unnecessary spending on drugs, targeting medicines 
 properly and adopting a generics policy whereby any branded medicine for 
 which there is an equally effective generic version is substituted.
 
 The report found some countries pay far more for medicines than others - in 
 some places prices are up to 67 times the international average. France's 
 strategy of generic substitution led to savings equivalent to $1.94 billion 
 in 2008, it said.
 
 
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