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The right to health as the basis for universal health coverage : a cross-national analysis of national medicines policies of 71 countries [PDF]

, 2019
Persistent barriers to universal access to medicines are limited social protection in the event of illness, inadequate financing for essential medicines, frequent stock-outs in the public sector, and high prices in the private sector.
Alexandrov, Nikita V, Hogerzeil, Hans V, Perehudoff, Katrina   +2 more
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Institutionalizing Health Technology Assessment in South Africa—An Opportunity in National Health Insurance

Health Systems & Reform, 2023
While South Africa has some experience in various forms of health technology assessment (HTA), it is currently fragmented across numerous players. Additionally, there is a lack of systematic and consistently applied HTA processes that inform priority ...
Janine Jugathpal, Andrew Parrish, Khadija Jamaloodien, Mark Blecher, Jonatan Daven   +4 more
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Rethinking health sector procurement as developmental linkages in East Africa [PDF]

, 2018
Health care forms a large economic sector in all countries, and procurement of medicines and other essential commodities necessarily creates economic linkages between a country's health sector and local and international industrial development.
Abimola, Banda, Bigdeli, Caroline Israel, Chataway, Chaudhuri, Ewen, Flecker, Gereffi, Global Fund, Huff-Rousselle, Höllein, Joan Kariuki Kungu, Kaplinsky, KEMSA Task Force, Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS), Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS), Massard da Fonseca, Maureen Mackintosh, Medical Stores Department (MSD), Mercy Karimi Njeru, Ministry of Health and Social Welfare (MoHSW), Ministry of Medical Services and Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation (MoMS & MPHS), Mujinja, Olcay, Opwora, Ozawa, Paula Tibandebage, Pazirandeh, Phares G.M. Mujinja, Shadlen, Sidibé, Srinivas, UNIDO, United Republic of Tanzania (URT), United Republic of Tanzania (URT), United Republic of Tanzania (URT), Waako, Wafula, Wang'Ombe, WHO, Wiedenmayer, Yadav, Yadav   +43 more
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One or two serological assay testing strategy for diagnosis of HBV and HCV infection? The use of predictive modelling

BMC Infectious Diseases, 2017
Background Initial serological testing for chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is conducted using either rapid diagnostic tests (RDT) or laboratory-based enzyme immunoassays (EIA)s for detection of hepatitis B surface ...
John V. Parry, Philippa Easterbrook, Anita R. Sands   +2 more
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Essential Travel Medicine [PDF]

, 2015
This 1st edition of Essential Travel Medicine provides an excellent concise introduction to the specialty of Travel Medicine. This core text will enable health care practitioners particularly those new to the clinical practice of Travel Medicine, to gain a fundamental understanding of the diverse and complex issues which can potentially affect the ...
Zuckerman, Jane N., Brunette, Gary W., Leggat, Peter A.   +2 more
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25 years of the WHO essential medicines lists: progress and challenges. [PDF]

, 2003
The first WHO essential drugs list, published in 1977, was described as a peaceful revolution in international public health. The list helped to establish the principle that some medicines were more useful than others and that essential medicines were ...
't Hoen, 't Hoen, Andy Gray, Brenda Waning, Chetley, Editorial, Ellen 't Hoen, Executive Board, Gray, Gray, Gray, Hogerzeil, Howard, Kanji, Maritoux, Nathan Ford, Quick, Quick, Richard Laing, Scholtz, Steiger, Trouiller, Velasquez   +22 more
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Implementing essential diagnostics-learning from essential medicines: A scoping review.

PLOS Global Public Health, 2022
The World Health Organization (WHO) model list of Essential In vitro Diagnostic (EDL) introduced in 2018 complements the established Essential Medicines List (EML) and improves its impact on advancing universal health coverage and better health outcomes.
Moriasi Nyanchoka, Mercy Mulaku, Bruce Nyagol, Eddy Johnson Owino, Simon Kariuki, Eleanor Ochodo   +5 more
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Copayments for prescription medicines on a public health insurance scheme in Ireland [PDF]

, 2015
Purpose: We assessed the impact of the introduction of a €0.50 prescription copayment, and its increase to €1.50, on adherence to essential and less-essential medicines in a publicly insured population in Ireland. Methods: We used a pre-post longitudinal
Barry, Benner, Brian, Cahir, Central Statistics Office, Chernew, Choudhry, Cohen, Drummond, Goldman, Goldman, Grimes, Harris, Ho, Hoer, Hsu, Larsen, Liang, Linnet, Lohr, National Health Service, OECD, Ong, Ray, Reeder, Schneeweiss, Soumerai, Soumerai, Soumerai, Spillane, Stuckler, Tamblyn, Thekiso, Wagner, Whitaker   +34 more
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The reform of the essential medicines system in China: a comprehensive approach to universal coverage [PDF]

Journal of Global Health, 2013
To achieve universal health care coverage, the Government of China invested in large–scale health care reform. One of the major reform components focuses on improving access to essential medicines to reduce high out–of–pocket medicines spending.
Sarah L. Barber , Baobin Huang , Budiono Santoso , Richard Laing , Valerie Paris , Chunfu Wu   +5 more
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The Consistency Between the Chinese Essential Medicines List and Treatment Guidelines—Taking Oncology Medicines as an Example

Frontiers in Public Health, 2022
The concepts of “essential medicine” and “national medicine policy” were first put forward for the first time at the World Health Assembly in 1975 in an effort to alleviate the problem of medicine unavailability in developing and poor countries.
Luyan Cheng, Luyan Cheng, Caiyun Li, Caiyun Li, Xuefang Zhang, Xuefang Zhang, Yongfa Chen, Yongfa Chen, Jianzhou Yan, Jianzhou Yan   +9 more
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