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Evaluation of the implementation of hospital hygiene components in 30 health-care facilities in the autonomous district of Abidjan (Cote d’Ivoire) with the WHO Infection Prevention and Control Assessment Framework (IPCAF)

BMC Health Services Research, 2023
Introduction As part of the implementation of its mission “to integrate hygiene activities into healthcare”, the general directorate of health conducted in 2018 with its technical structures, an evaluation of the implementation of Infection Prevention ...
Doumbia Mariamou Cissé, Essis Esme Marie Laure, Koné Atioumounan Blaise, N’gbesso N’gbesso Jean Paul, Mbengue Valérie Gbonon, Cissé Raïssa Adja Mayaka, Gagne Doh Eugénie, Dagnan N’cho Simplice, Kouadio Luc Philippe, Samba Mamadou   +9 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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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.
Alexander Morgan Capron, Amir Attaran
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An Analysis of Leading Congressional Health Care Bills, 2007-2008: Part I, Insurance Coverage [PDF]

, 2009
Compares coverage and cost estimates of bills to improve health coverage through private-public approaches, universal public insurance, tax changes, increased coverage for children and the disabled, expanded health savings accounts, and other ...
Jennifer L. Nicholson, Sara R. Collins, Sheila D. Rustgi   +2 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, Dang, Haixia, Kominski, Gerald F, Li, Weimin, Lu, Bingqing, Tao, Wenjuan, Wen, Jin, Yue, Dahai, Zeng, Zhi, Zhao, Rui   +9 more
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Optimizing the roles of health workers to improve access to health services in Africa: an implementation framework for task shifting and sharing for policy and practice

BMC Health Services Research, 2023
Background Globally, countries are taking actions to ensure that their population have improved access to people-centred and integrated health services.
Sunny C Okoroafor, Christmal Dela Christmals   +1 more
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Pregnancy among adolescent girls in humanitarian settings: a case in refugee camp of Gambella regional state, community-based cross-sectional study, Southwest Ethiopia, 2021

BMJ Open, 2022
Objective The aim of this study was to assess the prevalence of pregnancy and associated factors among adolescent girls in Nguenyyiel Refugee Camp.Design Cross-sectional study was employed to conduct this study.Setting A community-based cross-sectional ...
Koang Nyak Bol, Ebissa Negera, Abdi Geda Gedefa   +2 more
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Improving quality of care for maternal and newborn health: a pre-post evaluation of the Safe Childbirth Checklist at a hospital in Bangladesh

BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 2017
Background Bangladesh has achieved major gains in maternal and newborn survival, facility childbirth and skilled birth attendance between 1991 and 2010, but excess maternal mortality persists.
Herfina Y. Nababan, Rubana Islam, Shabnam Mostari, Md Tariqujjaman, Malabika Sarker, Mohammad Tajul Islam, Corrina Moucheraud   +6 more
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A sustainable approach to universal health coverage [PDF]

The Lancet Global Health, 2019
Contains fulltext : 208833.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
Jansen, M.P.M., Bijlmakers, L.A., Baltussen, R.M., Rouwette, E.A.J.A., Broekhuizen, H.   +4 more
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Do Individual Mandates Matter? [PDF]

, 2008
Outlines the reasons why achieving universal health insurance coverage requires an individual mandate, and why individual mandate proposals must address the affordability of adequate coverage and develop fair and effective ways to enforce the ...
John Holahan, Linda J. Blumberg
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