نتایج جستجو برای: uhc

تعداد نتایج: 613  

2014
Ties Boerma Carla AbouZahr David Evans Tim Evans

Monitoring universal health coverage (UHC) focuses on information on health intervention coverage and financial protection. This paper addresses monitoring intervention coverage, related to the full spectrum of UHC, including health promotion and disease prevention, treatment, rehabilitation, and palliation. A comprehensive core set of indicators most relevant to the country situation should be...

2015
Kazi Mizanur Rahman Indira V. M. Samarawickrema David Harley Anna Olsen Colin D. Butler Shariful Amin Sumon Subrata Kumar Biswas Stephen P. Luby Adrian C. Sleigh

INTRODUCTION Elimination of kala-azar is planned for South Asia requiring good surveillance along with other strategies. We assessed surveillance in Gaffargaon upazila (a subdistrict of 13 unions) of Mymensingh district, Bangladesh highly endemic for kala-azar. METHODS In 4703 randomly sampled households, within nine randomly sampled villages, drawn from three randomly sampled unions, we acti...

Journal: :WHO South-East Asia journal of public health 2016
Walaiporn Patcharanarumol Warisa Panichkriangkrai Sangay Wangmo Jadej Thammatacharee Masaaki Uechi Yaowaluk Wanwong

Universal health coverage (UHC) is a key policy issue in countries of the World Health Organization (WHO) South-East Asia Region. However, despite projections of significant increases in burden, there is little protection against the financial risks associated with noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), including diabetes. Thailand achieved UHC of all 67 million of the population in 2002, under three...

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 ...

2017
Sophie Witter Veloshnee Govender TK Sundari Ravindran Robert Yates

In a webinar in 2015 on health financing and gender, the question was raised why we need to focus on gender, given that a well-functioning system moving towards Universal Health Coverage (UHC) will automatically be equitable and gender balanced. This article provides a reflection on this question from a panel of health financing and gender experts.We trace the evidence of how health-financing r...

2017
Ayman Fouda Francesco Paolucci

Universal health coverage (UHC) is the big objective in health policy which several countries are seeking to achieve. Egypt is no different and its endeavors to attain UHC have been going on since the 1960s. This article discusses the status of UHC in Egypt using theories of political science and economics by analyzing the historical transformations in the Egyptian health system and its institu...

2017
Angkana Sommanustweechai

Progress towards Universal Health Coverage (UHC) requires making difficult trade-offs. In this journal, Dr. Margaret Chan, the WHO Director-General, has endorsed the principles for making such decisions put forward by the WHO Consultative Group on Equity and UHC. These principles include maximizing population health, priority for the worse off, and shielding people from health-related financial...

2014
Ximena Aguilera Carla Castillo-Laborde Manuel Nájera-De Ferrari Iris Delgado Ciro Ibañez

With the establishment of the social security system in 1924, Chile started the path towards UHC. A key milestone was the creation of the National Health System in 1952, which offered public subsidized coverage for the poor [1]. Currently, after the partial privatization of social security in 1981 the health system is mixed, both in insurance and in service provision [2], and health insurance r...

2016
Alex Voorhoeve Tessa T.T. Edejer Lydia Kapiriri Ole F. Norheim James Snowden Olivier Basenya Dorjsuren Bayarsaikhan Ikram Chentaf Nir Eyal Amanda Folsom Rozita Halina Tun Hussein Cristian Morales Florian Ostmann Trygve Ottersen Phusit Prakongsai Carla Saenz Karima Saleh Angkana Sommanustweechai Daniel Wikler Afisah Zakariah

The goal of achieving Universal Health Coverage (UHC) can generally be realized only in stages. Moreover, resource, capacity, and political constraints mean governments often face difficult trade-offs on the path to UHC. In a 2014 report, Making fair choices on the path to UHC, the WHO Consultative Group on Equity and Universal Health Coverage articulated principles for making such trade-offs i...

2017
Chhabi Lal Ranabhat Chun-Bae Kim Myung-Bae Park Sambhu Acharaya

BACKGROUND Disparity in adult mortality (AM) with reference to social dynamics and health care has not been sufficiently examined. This study aimed to identify the gap in the understanding of AM in relation to religion, political stability, economic level, and universal health coverage (UHC). METHODS A cross-national study was performed with different sources of data, using the administrative...

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