BACKGROUND Low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs) have difficulties achieving universal financial protection, which is primordial for universal health coverage. A promising avenue to provide universal financial protection for the informal sector and the rural populace is community-based health insurance (CBHI). We systematically assessed and synthesised factors associated with CBHI enro...

doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/19831447.2016.04.70485 How to cite this article: Crossetti MGO, Goes MGO. Revista Gaúcha de Enfermagem: a contribution to the Universal Access to Health and Universal Health Coverage [Editorial]. Rev Gaúcha Enferm. 2016 Dec;37(4):e70485. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/19831447.2016.04.70485. Revista Gaúcha de Enfermagem: a contribution to the Universal Access to H...

the health sector, a foremost service sector in nigeria, faces a number of challenges; primarily, the persistent under-funding of the health sector by the nigerian government as evidence reveals low allocations to the health sector and poor health system performance which are reflected in key health indices of the country.notwithstanding, there is evidence that the private sector could be a key...

This paper represents the first research attempt to estimate the probabilities of Vietnamese patients falling into destitution due to financial burdens occurring during a curative hospital stay. The study models risk against such factors as level of insurance coverage, residency status of patient, and cost of treatment, among others. The results show that very high probabilities of destitution,...

Despite progressive universal drug coverage and pharmaceutical policies found in other countries, Canada remains the only developed nation with a publicly funded healthcare system that does not include universal coverage for prescription drugs. In the absence of a national pharmacare plan, a province may choose to cover a specific sub-population for certain drugs. Altho...