FINANCE SYSTEM OF HEALTHCARE AND IT’S EFFECTS AND CHALLENGES IN SAUDI ARABIA HOSPITALS
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Healthcare expenditure is recognized as one of the important factors influencing health consequences in nations. Achieving health organization objectives requires appropriate financing strategies that ensure complete health upkeep for the populace. To grow appropriate strategies, health policy makers need to assess health organization performance and order resource distribution through different actions to attain optimal health consequences. National Health Accounts (NHAs) are one of powerful implements that help choice makers not only keep track of economic resources, however also provide the indication they need to develop operational health policy.
The NHA tracks and informs the flow of funds into and out of the country's healthcare system. Kind of payer and facilities acquired. NHA can be used for comparison of medical fields between nations. Regular use of the NHA will help the NHA provide important data, provide a further nuanced accepting of the features affecting health sector presentation, introduce policy instruments that can be used by planners, and inform reforms in the health sector. Evaluable and sustained resources have proven benefits. (Mohammad 2018).
Out-of-pocket (OOP) Paying for medical services and medicines as you use them can have serious consequences for financial hardship. Making the OOP payments for medical services beyond their ability to pay, whether formal or informal, puts people in financial hardship. As a result, it can lead to poverty for individuals and families. Nations about the world last to implement improvements to reinforce health organizations and deliver economic defense to their citizens. In comparison, Arab nations, counting the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), have been criticized for failing to implement the health fairness campaign seen around the world. Saudi Arabia is some of lushest and wildest rising states in Middle East. The world's main oil creator and the exporter, generating most of country's income. However, in recent periods, Saudi Arabia has expanded its budget and now yields a wide diversity of industrial products and exports them around the world. A healthy economy and established industrial base are impacting Saudi society through increased income. (Wagstaff 2018).
Saudi Arabia is high-income nations in Arab area, by a predictable populace of thirty five million in 2020. Detection of the oil deposits in 1930s brought rapid economic growth to the Saudi Arabia. Similar to other developed countries. Saudi Arabia is deeply dependent on petroleum capitals, with the petroleum subdivision contributing closely 65% of the country Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in the 1991. Since its first financial growth strategy in 1970, the KSA has assumed importance to the fitness area. According to the Saudi establishment, the government is responsible for funding, providing and management health facilities. Ministry of Health (MOH) is the main basis of medical facilities over an extensive system of the 287 the provincial clinics and 2,257 major health centers. (Hasanov 2021).
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