Universal Health Insurance Coverage: Progress and Issues

Effective Coverage as a New Metric for Monitoring Progress towards Universal Health Coverage

Progress toward universal health coverage in ASEAN

BACKGROUND The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is characterized by much diversity in terms of geography, society, economic development, and health outcomes. The health systems as well as healthcare structure and provisions vary considerably. Consequently, the progress toward Universal Health Coverage (UHC) in these countries also varies. This paper aims to describe the progress t...

Universal Health Coverage: Everyone, Everywhere

سخن سردبیر Editorial مجله دانشگاه علوم پزشکی رفسنجان دوره هفدهم، خرداد 1398، 208-207       «پوشش همگانی بهداشت: هرکسی، هرجا»   Universal Health Coverage: Everyone, Everywhere   محسن رضائیان[1]   M. Rezaeian   سازمان جهانی بهداشت World Health Organization (WHO)  هر ساله  هفتم آوریل (مصادف با هجدهم فروردین) را به عنوان روز جهانی بهداشت گرامی داشته و شعاری را برای آن انتخاب می‌کند. ...

Does progress towards universal health coverage improve population health?

Many commentators, including WHO, have advocated progress towards universal health coverage on the grounds that it leads to improvements in population health. In this report we review the most robust cross-country empirical evidence on the links between expansions in coverage and population health outcomes, with a focus on the health effects of extended risk pooling and prepayment as key indica...

Monitoring and Evaluating Progress towards Universal Health Coverage in Brazil

1 Instituto de Saúde Coletiva, Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Brazil, 2 National Institute in Science, Technology and Innovation in Health (CITECS), Salvador, Brazil, 3 Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada, Brası́lia, Brazil, 4 Federal University of Santa Catarina, Floranopólis, Brazil, 5 Secretaria de Vigilância a Saúde, Ministry of Health, Brası́lia, Brazil, 6 Instituto de Comunicaç...