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Faire Des Choix Justes Pour Une Couverture Sanitaire Universelle [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
This report from the WHO Consultative Group on Equity and Universal Health Coverage offers advice on how to make progress fairly towards universal health ...
Chitah, Bona   +21 more
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National Health Insurance -- A Brief History of Reform Efforts in the U.S. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Provides an overview of efforts toward and support for national health reform in the 1900s, including the proposals' origins, main reform elements, economic and political contexts, and reasons why they failed to achieve universal ...

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A High Performance Health System for the United States: An Ambitious Agenda for the Next President [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
Presents the recommendations of the Fund's Commission on a High Performance Health System on the reforms needed to reach and raise benchmark performance levels, such as universal coverage, cost containment, and implementing an electronic records ...

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A concise, health service coverage index for monitoring progress towards universal health coverage [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
BACKGROUND: There is a growing international commitment to universal health coverage (UHC), but limited means to determine progress towards that goal.
Anthony Leegwater   +2 more
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Assessment of antimicrobial stewardship programmes and antibiotic use among children admitted to two hospitals in Sierra Leone: a cross-sectional study

open access: yesAntimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control
Introduction Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a global public health concern and irrational use of antibiotics in hospitals is a key driver of AMR. Even though it is not preventable, antimicrobial stewardship (AMS) programmes will reduce or slow it down.
Ibrahim Franklyn Kamara   +19 more
doaj   +1 more source

Legislating for universal access to medicines : a rights-based cross-national comparison of UHC laws in 16 countries [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Universal health coverage (UHC) aims to ensure that all people have access to health services including essential medicines without risking financial hardship. Yet, in many low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) inadequate UHC fails to ensure universal
Alexandrov, Nikita V   +2 more
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Monitoring Intervention Coverage in the Context of Universal Health Coverage

open access: yesPLoS Medicine, 2014
Monitoring universal health coverage (UHC) focuses on information on health intervention coverage and financial protection. This paper addresses monitoring intervention coverage, related to the full spectrum of UHC, including health promotion and disease prevention, treatment, rehabilitation, and palliation.
Timothy G Evans   +3 more
openaire   +5 more sources

Private Health Insurance Participation for Universal Coverage in the National Health Insurance Era in Denpasar, Bali [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Background: National health insurance is a government program that aims at fulfilling the basic needs of the citizens, particularly health. It aims at achieving universal coverage in Indonesia.
Indrayathi, P. A. (Putu)   +2 more
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Effective Coverage: A Metric for Monitoring Universal Health Coverage

open access: yesPLoS Medicine, 2014
A major challenge in monitoring universal health coverage (UHC) is identifying an indicator that can adequately capture the multiple components underlying the UHC initiative. Effective coverage, which unites individual and intervention characteristics into a single metric, offers a direct and flexible means to measure health system performance at ...
Abraham D. Flaxman   +5 more
openaire   +5 more sources

Financing health care in high-income countries [PDF]

open access: yes
The main lesson from the experience of high-income countries with health care financing is a simple one: financing reforms should support the ultimate goal of universal coverage. Most high-income countries started with voluntary health insurance systems,
G. Schieber   +2 more
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