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Disclosure and help seeking behavior of women exposed to physical spousal violence in Dhaka slums
BMC Public Health, 2016 Background Despite high prevalence of intimate partner violence (IPV) and its adverse social and health consequences, the rate of help seeking for IPV is generally low.
Kausar Parvin +2 more
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International Breastfeeding Journal, 2020 Background In Bangladesh 65% of children under 6 months of age were exclusively breastfed with maternal employment being a risk factor that has jeopardized exclusive breastfeeding.
A M Rumayan Hasan +6 more
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Journal of Pharmaceutical Policy and Practice, 2017 Background The private retail drug shops market in Bangladesh is largely unregulated and unaccountable, giving rise to irrational use of drugs and high Out-of-pocket expenditure on health.
Syed Masud Ahmed +3 more
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Universal health coverage and incarceration
The Lancet Public Health, 2022 Global progress towards universal coverage of essential health services, a component of UN Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 3.8, is measured at the country level using the WHO Service Coverage Index. However, data collection for this crucial metric excludes prisons and youth detention centres, despite the health needs in these settings, chronic ...
Winkelman, TNA +3 more
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Annals of SBV, 2018 In the last few decades, several initiatives have been undertaken by Government of India to increase access to essential health services. A framework for UHC was also developed by a High Level Expert Group (HLEG). The recently developed National Health Policy of India also espouses equity, universality, and affordability among its key principles and ...
K. Srinath Reddy, Manu Raj Mathur
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Knowledge translation in Africa: are the structures in place?
Implementation Science Communications, 2020 Background Contextualised evidence to generate local solutions on the progressive path to universal health coverage is essential. However, this evidence must be translated into action.
James Avoka Asamani +1 more
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Learning for Universal Health Coverage [PDF]
BMJ Global Health, 2019 The journey to universal health coverage (UHC) is full of challenges, which to a great extent are specific to each country. ‘Learning for UHC’ is a central component of countries’ health system strengthening agendas. Our group has been engaged for a decade in facilitating collective learning for UHC through a range of modalities at global, regional and
Bruno Meessen +15 more
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Towards universal health coverage: lessons from 10 years of healthcare reform in China. [PDF]
, 2020 Universal health coverage (UHC) is driving the global health agenda. Many countries have embarked on national policy reforms towards this goal, including China. In 2009, the Chinese government launched a new round of healthcare reform towards UHC, aiming
Chuong, Linh +9 more
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Quality use of medicines within universal health coverage: challenges and opportunities [PDF]
, 2014 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 ...
Quick, Jonathan D +2 more
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Universal health coverage in Iran [PDF]
The Lancet Global Health, 2016 www.thelancet.com/lancetgh Vol 4 May 2016 e305 merging, it seems that a step by step approach must be applied, and that the fi rst necessary step is not structural merging, but rather running the same policies and regulations for funds. Sustainability of reforms (financial and managerial) is crucial for a successful implementation.
Mousavi, S. M., Sadeghifar, J.
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