نتایج جستجو برای: universal health coverage uhc

تعداد نتایج: 1140863  

Journal: :International journal of health policy and management 2023

Since 2001, when Uganda abolished user fees to improve the accessibility of healthcare, out-of-pocket costs still account for 42% total health expenditure. Even if universal coverage (UHC) is achieved on demand-side, government authorities face political and economic challenges due soaring burden diseases. Therefore, this study aimed re-analyze implementation process according three pillars by ...

Journal: :The Lancet. Global health 2016
Jesse Bump Cheryl Cashin Kalipso Chalkidou David Evans Eduardo González-Pier Yan Guo Jeanna Holtz Daw Thein Thein Htay Carol Levin Robert Marten Sylvester Mensah Ariel Pablos-Méndez Ravindra Rannan-Eliya Martín Sabignoso Helen Saxenian Neelam Sekhri Feachem Agnes Soucat Viroj Tangcharoensathien Hong Wang Addis Tamire Woldemariam Gavin Yamey

Universal health coverage (UHC)—the availability of quality, aff ordable health services for all when needed without fi nancial impoverishment—can be a vehicle for improving equity, health outcomes, and fi nancial wellbeing. It can also contribute to economic development. In its Global Health 2035 report, the Lancet Commission on Investing in Health (CIH) set forth an ambitious investment frame...

Journal: :Social science & medicine 2015
Caryn Bredenkamp Timothy Evans Leizel Lagrada John Langenbrunner Stefan Nachuk Toomas Palu

As countries in Asia converge on the goal of universal health coverage (UHC), some common challenges are emerging. One is how to ensure coverage of the informal sector so as to make UHC truly universal; a second is how to design a benefit package that is responsive and appropriate to current health challenges, yet fiscally sustainable; and a third is how to ensure "supply-side readiness", i.e. ...

2017
Viroj Tangcharoensathien Walaiporn Patcharanarumol Warisa Panichkriangkrai Angkana Sommanustweechai

In responses to Norheim’s editorial, this commentary offers reflections from Thailand, how the five unacceptable trade-offs were applied to the universal health coverage (UHC) reforms between 1975 and 2002 when the whole 64 million people were covered by one of the three public health insurance systems. This commentary aims to generate global discussions on how best UHC can be gradually achieve...

2018
Rajat Das Gupta ASM Shahabuddin

This review aimed to compare Bangladesh's Universal Health Coverage (UHC) monitoring framework with the global-level recommendations and to find out the existing gaps of Bangladesh's UHC monitoring framework compared to the global recommendations. In order to reach the aims of the review, we systematically searched two electronic databases - PubMed and Google Scholar - by using appropriate keyw...

2013
Adam D. Koon Susannah H. Mayhew

This article opens a debate about how to think about moving forward with the emerging twin movements of human resources for health (HRH) and universal health coverage (UHC). There is sufficient evidence to warrant these movements, but actors and the policy process significantly affect which policies are adopted and how they are implemented. How exactly this occurs in low- and middle-income coun...

2014
Anita K Wagner Jonathan D Quick Dennis Ross-Degnan

BACKGROUND Medicines are a major driver of quality, safety, equity, and cost of care in low and middle-income country health systems. Universal health coverage implementers must explicitly address appropriate use of medicines to realize the health benefits of medicines, avoid wasting scarce resources, and sustain the financial viability of universal health coverage schemes. DISCUSSION Medicin...

2017
John W Peabody Stella Quimbo Jhiedon Florentino Riti Shimkhada Xylee Javier David Paculdo Dean Jamison Orville Solon

Background   Should health systems invest more in access to care by expanding insurance coverage or in health care services including improving the quality of care? Comparing these options experimentally would shed light on the impact and cost-effectiveness of these strategies. Methods   The Quality Improvement Demonstration Study (QIDS) was a randomized policy experiment conducted across 30 ...

2016
Audrey R. Chapman

BACKGROUND The UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), adopted in September 2015, include a comprehensive health goal, "to ensure healthy lives and promote well-being at all ages." The health goal (SDG 3) has nine substantive targets and four additional targets which are identified as a means of implementation. One of these commitments, to achieve universal health coverage (UHC), has been ac...

2015
Anthony Leegwater Wendy Wong Carlos Avila

BACKGROUND There is a growing international commitment to universal health coverage (UHC), but limited means to determine progress towards that goal. We developed a practical index for capturing health service coverage - a critical dimension of UHC -- that was more inclusive than previous methods. METHODS Our data included publicly-available, indicators reflecting health service delivery, inf...

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