Challenges and opportunities towards the road of universal health coverage (UHC) in Nepal: a systematic review

Universal Health Coverage in Iran: A Review of Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats

Background: Universal health coverage (UHC) aims to provide access to basic health services with no financial constraints. In Iran, the major challenges to the implementation of the UHC plan include aggregation and augmentation of resources, something which could threaten the dimension of population coverage and health service delivery. Therefore, this study reviews the strengths and weaknesses...

A Systematic Review Opportunities and Challenges of Tele-cardiology in Health Care Systems

Aim: Telecardiology provides a useful diagnostic tool for accurate and rapid diagnosis of patients with cardiac disorders to specialist and general practitioners. In this study, a systematic review was conducted to identify effective components and approaches in Telecardiology, such as the opportunities and challenges of applying this system in different domains. Information sources or data: T...

Implementing Federalism in the Health System of Nepal: Opportunities and Challenges

Nepal moved from unitary system with a three-level federal system of government. As federalism accelerates, the national health system can also speed up its own decentralization process, reduce disparities in access, and improve health outcomes. The turn towards federalism creates several potential opportunities for the national healthcare system. This is because decision making has been devolv...

UHC Presents Universal Challenges

Medicines and universal health coverage: challenges and opportunities

The goal of Universal health coverage (UHC) is to ensure that all people obtain the health services they need without suffering financial hardship when paying for them [1]. This goal is based on the idea of an affordable continuum of care from preventive to curative and rehabilitative services for which essential health system resources are required. These resources include health workers, esse...