Table 1.
Overview of health financing in policy documents of Nepal: Status, issues and challenges.
Table 2.
Health financing functions in different social health protection schemes in Nepal.
Fig 1.
PRISMA-ScR flow chart for selection of studies for the review.
Table 3.
Health programs and coverage as per UHC dimensions in Nepal.
Fig 2.
UHC service coverage index for Nepal (Source [11]).
Fig 3.
Increasing NCD burden in Nepal over the last three decades.
Source: Our World in Data [132].
Fig 4.
Trend in health financing indicators in Nepal (2000–2021).
Data source: World Bank (https://data.worldbank.org/).
Fig 5.
Health expenditure by programs/diseases/health conditions in Nepal (NHAs 2015/16–2019/20) [151, 152].
Fig 6.
Health budget distribution across Nepal’s three tiers of government.
Source: Progress of Health and Population Sector 2023/24 (2080/81)[45].
Fig 7.
Summary of implications of study findings for policy and program.