Promoting and protecting health is essential to human welfare and sustained economic and
social development. Education, housing, food and employment all impact on health. Redressing
inequalities in these will reduce inequalities in health. It determines whether people can afford
to use health services when they need them. Health financing is an important part of broader
efforts to ensure social protection in health. Recognizing this, Myanmar committed to
strengthen the health financing systems so that all people have access to services and do not
suffer financial hardship paying for them.