نتایج جستجو برای: progressive realization of universal health coverage uhc

تعداد نتایج: 21318640  

Journal: :Health economics, policy, and law 2016
Peter Littlejohns Kalipso Chalkidou

Making Fair Choices on the Path to Universal Health Coverage [UHC; World Health Organization (WHO), 2014] is to be welcomed because tackling the relationship between cost-effectiveness and fairness has been given too little attention in policy-making. The consensus that universal coverage is a good thing quickly disperses as the concept is translated into working national policies and local del...

2014
Hoang Van Minh Nicola Suyin Pocock Nathorn Chaiyakunapruk Chhea Chhorvann Ha Anh Duc Piya Hanvoravongchai Jeremy Lim Don Eliseo Lucero-Prisno Nawi Ng Natalie Phaholyothin Alay Phonvisay Kyaw Min Soe Vanphanom Sychareun

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...

2018
Chris van Weel Faisal Alnasir Taghreed Farahat Jinan Usta Mona Osman Mariam Abdulmalik Nagwa Nashat Wadeia Mohamed Alsharief Salwa Sanousi Hassan Saleh Mohammed Tarawneh Felicity Goodyear-Smith Amanda Howe Ryuki Kassai

BACKGROUND Primary healthcare (PHC) is essential for equitable access and cost-effective healthcare. This makes PHC a key factor in the global strategy for universal health coverage (UHC). Implementing PHC requires an understanding of the health system under prevailing circumstances, but for most countries, no data are available. OBJECTIVES This paper describes and analyses the health systems...

2015
Viroj Tangcharoensathien Anne Mills Toomas Palu

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), to be committed to by Heads of State at the upcoming 2015 United Nations General Assembly, have set much higher and more ambitious health-related goals and targets than did the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The main challenge among MDG off-track countries is the failure to provide and sustain financial access to quality services by communities, e...

2018
Mariyam Suzana Helen Walls Richard Smith Johanna Hanefeld

Background Universal health coverage (UHC) is difficult to achieve in settings short of medicines, health workers and health facilities. These characteristics define the majority of the small island developing states (SIDS), where population size negates the benefits of economies of scale. One option to alleviate this constraint is to import health services, rather than focus on domestic produc...

2017
Gerald Bloom Gemma Buckland Merrett Annie Wilkinson Vivian Lin Sarah Paulin

The WHO launched a Global Action Plan on antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in 2015. World leaders in the G7, G20 and the UN General Assembly have declared AMR to be a global crisis. World leaders have also adopted universal health coverage (UHC) as a key target under the sustainable development goals. This paper argues that neither initiative is likely to succeed in isolation from the other and th...

2016
Dainius Puras

In 1978, the Alma-Ata Declaration established a bold plan for global health action and social justice, identifying primary health care as the lynchpin for achieving health for all.1 Several years later, the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion, responding to growing health challenges within industrialized societies, formally recognized underlying determinants as an integrated and vital part of h...

2017
Md Rashedul Islam Md Shafiur Rahman Zobida Islam Cherri Zhang B Nurs Papia Sultana Md Mizanur Rahman

BACKGROUND Financial risk protection and equity are major components of universal health coverage (UHC), which is defined as ensuring access to health services for all citizens without any undue financial burden. We investigated progress towards UHC financial risk indicators and assessed variability of inequalities in financial risk protection indicators by wealth quintile. We further examined ...

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