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The cost of health workforce gaps and inequitable distribution in the Ghana Health Service: an analysis towards evidence-based health workforce planning and management

open access: yesHuman Resources for Health, 2021
Background Despite tremendous health workforce efforts which have resulted in increases in the density of physicians, nurses and midwives from 1.07 per 1000 population in 2005 to 2.65 per 1000 population in 2017, Ghana continues to face shortages of ...
James Avoka Asamani   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Gearing health systems for universal health coverage

open access: yesFrontiers in Health Services, 2023
Universal health coverage requires adequate and sustainable resourcing, which includes human capital, finance and infrastructure for its realization and sustainability. Well-functioning health systems enable health service delivery and therefore need to be either adequately or optimally geared—prepared and equipped—for service delivery to advance ...
Marlon E. Cerf, Marlon E. Cerf
openaire   +3 more sources

COMP–PMEPA1 axis promotes epithelial‐to‐mesenchymal transition in breast cancer cells

open access: yesMolecular Oncology, EarlyView.
This study reveals that cartilage oligomeric matrix protein (COMP) promotes epithelial‐to‐mesenchymal transition (EMT) in breast cancer. We identify PMEPA1 (protein TMEPAI) as a novel COMP‐binding partner that mediates EMT via binding to the TSP domains of COMP, establishing the COMP–PMEPA1 axis as a key EMT driver in breast cancer.
Konstantinos S. Papadakos   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

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)

open access: yesBMC 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   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Swiss and Dutch Health Insurance Systems: Universal Coverage and Regulated Competitive Insurance Markets [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Compares systems of universal insurance coverage based on individual mandates, consumer choice of health plans, and regulated insurance market competition in Switzerland and the Netherlands. Discusses insights and implications for U.S.
Christian Rutschi   +4 more
core   +1 more source

Interrogating the immune landscape of microsatellite stable RAS‐mutated colon cancer

open access: yesMolecular Oncology, EarlyView.
COLOSSUS project RAS‐mutated MSS colon cancer study explored transcriptomics and immune cell density by immunohistochemistry (IHC), Immunoscore (IS), ISIC/TuLIS scores, mutation counts, and detected different prevalences but similar microenvironment composition across immune markers with clinical relevance for future immunotherapy combination ...
Rodrigo Dienstmann   +61 more
wiley   +1 more source

Achieving Universal Coverage Through Comprehensive Health Reform: The Vermont Experience [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Provides an overview of Vermont's comprehensive health reform and the interim results of a two-year evaluation of its impact on the affordability of coverage and access to services, as well as its sustainability.
Brian Robertson   +4 more
core  

The International Right to Health: What Does It Mean in Legal Practice and How Can It Affect Priority Setting for Universal Health Coverage? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
The international right to health is enshrined in national and international law. In a growing number of cases, individuals denied access to high-cost medicines and technologies under universal coverage systems have turned to the courts to challenge the ...
Chalkidou, Kalipso   +4 more
core   +2 more sources

Unique health identifiers for universal health coverage [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Health, Population and Nutrition, 2019
Abstract Identifying everyone residing in a country, especially the poor, is an indispensable part of pursuing universal health coverage (UHC). Having information on an individuals’ financial protection is also imperative for measuring the progress of UHC.
Samuel Mills   +7 more
openaire   +3 more sources

Universal health information is essential for universal health coverage

open access: yesFamily Medicine and Community Health, 2023
Universal access to health information is a human right and essential to achieving universal health coverage and the other health-related targets of the sustainable development goals. The COVID-19 pandemic has further highlighted the importance of trustworthy sources of health information that are accessible to all people, easily understood and acted ...
Danielle Muscat   +5 more
openaire   +3 more sources

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