Background: The Universal Health Coverage (UHC) offers an essential package of health services to citizens while protecting them financially in case illness. It has been given a top priority globally as health-related aim. In Kenya, whereas MNCH have continued attract investment over the years, reports still show high rates maternal and child mortality. study was sought assess level uptake univ...

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...

Making progress towards universal health coverage (UHC) requires that health workers are adequate in numbers, prepared for their jobs and motivated to perform. In establishing the best ways to develop the health workforce, relatively little attention has been paid to the trends and implications of dual practice - concurrent employment in public and private sectors. We review recent research on ...

strengthening the health workforce and universal health coverage (uhc) are among key targets in the heathrelated sustainable development goals (sdgs) to be committed by the united nations (un) member states in september 2015. the health workforce, the backbone of health systems, contributes to functioning delivery systems. equitable distribution of functioning services is indispensable to achie...

BACKGROUND It is very challenging for resource-limited settings to introduce universal health coverage (UHC), particularly regarding the inclusion of high-cost renal dialysis as part of the UHC benefit package. This paper addresses three issues: (1) whether a setting commits to include renal dialysis in its UHC benefit package and if so, why and how; (2) how to ensure quality of renal dialysis ...

In the 42 years since independence, Bangladesh has made some substantial progress in the health sector, which is all the more remarkable when compared with other countries in the region [1– 5]. However, this achievement is not uniform across all health indicators. The coverage of many critical health services is still quite low. The country’s health system is struggling to meet basic standards ...

Editorials 801 Global commitment to achieving universal health coverage (UHC) has grown stronger in recent years. 1 With this commitment has come the realization that, for UHC to be attained, the health workforce must possess clinical and non-clinical skills and competencies that respond to actual population needs. 2 The workforce is vital to well-functioning health-care delivery systems and eq...

Universal Health Coverage, (UHC), has proven to be an undeniable political and very ambitious health agenda aimed at ensuring that everyone access basic quality care services irrespective of their socio-economic status geographical location. The UHC concept is upmost importance in Cameroon considering the high levels out-of-pocket expenditures fragile systems. Achieving will not only increase l...