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[Accepted Manuscript] Nurses’ perceptions of universal health coverage and its implications for the Kenyan health sector [PDF]
, 2016 Universal health coverage, comprehensive access to affordable and quality health services, is a key component of the newly adopted 2015 Sustainable Development Goals. Prior to the UN resolution, several countries began incorporating elements of universal
Koon, A.D. +4 more
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Ensuring health in universal health coverage [PDF]
Nature, 2013 This article discusses the global overwhelming disease burden and how health systems must transcend clinical medicine and emphasize public-health approaches aimed at the drivers of ...
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Has Latin America achieved universal health coverage yet? Lessons from four countries
Archives of Public Health, 2022 Background Seven years after the commitment to United Nations’ call for Universal Health Coverage, healthcare services in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico are generally accessible and affordable; but they still struggle to meet population health ...
Ramiro E. Gilardino +2 more
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Universal health coverage and health laws
The Lancet, 2014 Rifat Atun and colleagues (July 6, p 65)1 described the development of uni versal health coverage in Turkey. Yet a transcendent point in Turkey’s achievement is easily overlooked: all the foundational reforms of the health system that made universal health coverage possible were changes prescribed by law.
Amir, Attaran, Alexander M, Capron
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“Sehat Sahulat Program”: A Leap into the Universal Health Coverage in Pakistan
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2022 Universal Health Coverage (UHC), initiative from the World Health Organization (WHO), is a means to provide the human right to health by providing essential health services to everyone, enabling disease prevention, treatment, rehabilitation, and ...
S. Hasan +3 more
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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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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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BMC Health Services Research, 2022 Background High burden of healthcare expenditure precludes the poor from access to quality healthcare services. In Ethiopia, a significant proportion of the population has faced financial catastrophe associated with the costs of healthcare services.
Ayal Debie, R. Khatri, Yibeltal Assefa
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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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