BACKGROUND Countries in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) have substantially improved access to family planning over the past 50 years. Many have also recently adopted explicit declarations of universal rights to health and universal health coverage (UHC) and have begun implementing UHC-oriented health financing schemes. These schemes will have important implications for the sustainability ...

BACKGROUND This study aimed to examine the availability, use, and affordability of medicines in urban China following the 2009 Health Care System Reform that included implementation of universal health coverage (UHC). METHODS This longitudinal study was performed in Hangzhou (high income, eastern China) and Baoji (lower income, western China). Five yearly household surveys were conducted (one...

This paper uses the case of India to demonstrate that Universal Health Coverage (UHC) is about not only health financing; personal and population services production issues, stewardship of the health system and generation of the necessary resources and inputs need to accompany the health financing proposals. In order to help policy makers address UHC in India and sort out implementation issues,...

BACKGROUND Many Low-and-Middle-Income countries are considering reviewing their health financing systems to meet the principles of Universal Health Coverage (UHC). One financing mechanism, which has dominated UHC reforms, is the development of health insurance schemes. We trace the historical development of the National Health Insurance (NHI) policy, illuminate stakeholders' perceptions on the ...

BACKGROUND The growing momentum for quality and affordable health care for all has given rise to the recent global universal health coverage (UHC) movement. As part of Indonesia's strategy to achieve the goal of UHC, large investments have been made to increase health access for the poor, resulting in the implementation of various health insurance schemes targeted towards the poor and near-poor...

BACKGROUND In the last decade, almost every low- or middle-income country in the world has expressed support for universal health coverage (UHC). While at the beginning of the UHC movement, country strategies focused on increasing access to the formal sector as the first step of UHC, there is now consensus that countries should cover the entire population, with particular attention to covering ...

Pelayanan kesehatan dasar menjadi sorotan dalam agenda global SDGs pada target Universal Health Coverage (UHC). Agenda (UHC) menuntut cakupan data mengenai lokasi fasilitas dan populasi yang dapat dilayani untuk memastikan bahwa semua orang memperoleh dibutuhkan. Namun kenyataannya terjadi disparitas penyediaan infrastruktur. Banyak terkonsentrasi di perkotaan akibat aksesibilitas. Ketidakmerat...

this paper discusses whether european institutions should devote so much attention and funding to cross-border healthcare or they should instead prioritise guaranteeing universal health coverage (uhc), inequalities and tackling the effects of austerity measures. the paper argues through providing the evidence in both areas of research, that the priority at european level from a public health an...

Forage grass nutritional quality directly affects animal feed intake, productivity, and enteric methane (CH 4 ) emissions. This study evaluated the quality, in vitro CH emission potential, optimization of diets based on two widely grown tropical forage grasses either alone or mixed with legumes. The Urochloa hybrid cv. Cayman (UHC) U. brizantha Toledo (UBT), which typically have low concentrati...

UHC (Universal Health Coverage) is at the center of the Sustainable Development Agenda. In this study, the authors made an evaluation of the indicators allowing quantification of the impact of health coverage schemes on patients, applied in 4 sub-Saharan Africa countries: Rwanda, Burundi, the DRC (Democratic Republic of Congo) and Mali. After an analysis of potential health coverage indicators,...