Revenue CollectionRevenue Mobilisation, Domestic Resource Mobilisation
The process by which a health system raises financial resources, through mechanisms such as general taxation, social insurance, and private premiums.
Health Financing & Insurance
Terms for how health systems raise and pool funds, insure populations and pay providers.
- Topic: Health Financing & Insurance
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Risk AdjustmentRisk-Adjusted Payment, Morbidity Adjustment
Risk adjustment makes outcomes, costs, utilisation or payments more comparable by accounting for differences in characteristics that affect expected results but are not the focus of the comparison.
Risk PoolingFund Pooling, Financial Pooling
Risk pooling is the accumulation and management of prepaid health funds for a defined population so that the financial consequences of health-care need are shared across members rather than borne solely by each person when illness occurs.