Akhnif, El Houcine Hachri, Hafid Belmadani, Abdelouahab Mataria, Awad Bigdeli, Maryam
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Health Research Policy and Systems
BackgroundPolicy dialogue for health policies has started to gain importance in recent years, especially for complex issues such as health financing. Moroccan health financing has faced several challenges during the last years. This study aims to document the Moroccan experience in developing a consolidated health financing strategy according to th...
Paul, Elisabeth Sambiéni, N’koué Emmanuel Wangbe, Jean-Pierre Fecher, Fabienne Bourgeois, Marc
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Health Economics Review
BackgroundIn its pursuance of universal health coverage (UHC), the government of Benin is piloting a project of mandatory social insurance for health entitled “ARCH”.MethodsWe analysed budget data and ARCH documents, and conducted four observation missions in Benin between March 2018 and January 2020. Results are presented in terms of the three cla...
Paul, Elisabeth Sambiéni, N. Koué Emmanuel Wangbe, Jean-Pierre Fecher-Bourgeois, Fabienne Bourgeois, Marc
BACKGROUND: In its pursuance of universal health coverage (UHC), the government of Benin is piloting a project of mandatory social insurance for health entitled "ARCH". METHODS: We analysed budget data and ARCH documents, and conducted four observation missions in Benin between March 2018 and January 2020. Results are presented in terms of the thre...
Gupta, Indrani
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Indian economic review
The novel coronavirus has caused a global public health crisis, and impacted countries irrespective of their development status. The health system preparedness has varied across countries, necessitating a hard look at how resilient health systems can be built to withstand the onslaught of sudden pandemics and epidemics. India has been grappling wit...
Kwesiga, Brendan Aliti, Tom Nabukhonzo, Pamela Najuko, Susan Byawaka, Peter Hsu, Justine Ataguba, John E. Kabaniha, Grace
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BMC Health Services Research
BackgroundMonitoring progress towards Universal Health Coverage (UHC) requires an assessment of progress in coverage of health services and protection of households from the impact of direct out-of-pocket payments (i.e. financial risk protection). Although Uganda has expressed aspirations for attaining UHC, out-of-pocket payments remain a major con...
Rajaraman, Natarajan Yip, Teem-Wing Kuan, Benjamin Yi Hern Lim, Jeremy Fung Yen
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Asian bioethics review
Low-wage migrant workers in Singapore are legally entitled to healthcare provided by their employers and supported by private insurance, separate from the national UHC (universal health coverage) system. In practice, they face multiple barriers to access. In this article, we describe this policy-practice gap from the perspective of HealthServe, a n...
Meda, Ivlabèhiré Bertrand Kouanda, Seni Dumont, Alexandre Ridde, Valéry
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Health policy and planning
Almost all sub-Saharan countries have adopted cost-reduction policies to facilitate access to health care. However, several studies underline the reimbursement delays experienced by health facilities, which lead to deficient implementation of these policies. In April 2016, for its free care policy, Burkina Faso shifted from fee-for-service (FFS) pa...
Rivillas, Juan Carlos Devia-Rodriguez, Raúl Ingabire, Marie-Gloriose
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International Journal for Equity in Health
BackgroundUnderstanding health financing reforms and means is key to evaluate how maternal health has improved. Problems related to health financing policies are contributing to inadequate quality of care and inequitable use of healthcare by pregnant women, resulting in poor maternal health outcomes. The purpose of the study was to measure socioeco...
Kakama, Alex A. Namyalo, Prossy K. Basaza, Robert K.
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BMC Health Services Research
BackgroundCommunity-based Health Insurance (CBHI) schemes have been implemented world over as initial steps for national health insurance schemes. The CBHI concept developed out of a need for financial protection against catastrophic health expenditures to the poor after failure of other health financing mechanisms. CBHI schemes reduce out-of-pocke...
Ortega, Bienvenido Sanjuán, Jesús Casquero, Antonio
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BMC International Health and Human Rights
BackgroundIllicit financial flows (IFFs) drain domestic resources with harmful social effects, especially in countries which are too poor to mobilise the revenues required to finance the provision of essential public goods and services. In this context, this article empirically examined the association between IFFs and the provision of essential he...
