Information and communication technologies (ICT) for health or eHealth solutions hold great potential for generating … systemic efficiencies by strengthening five critical pillars of a health system: human resources for health, supply chain … management, health care financing, governance and service delivery, and infrastructure. This report describes the changing …

issue globally, undermining health gains and imposing financial and economic costs on governments and households. NCDs are … an important health challenge in the Pacific. First, (NCDs) can impose large but often preventable health, financial, and … bulk of health services. Second, risk factors in the Pacific are feeding a pipeline of potentially expensive-to-treat NCDs …

This role of faith-inspired health care providers in sub-saharan Africa and public-private partnerships is comprised of … a three volume series on strengthening the evidence for faith inspired engagement in health in sub-Saharan Africa. An … to achieve the millennium development goals (MDGs), especially in the areas of health. This series focuses on assessing …

Laboratories have historically been under supported in developing country health systems resulting in poor quality … funding for broader public health laboratory services has been relatively neglected. In this paper the authors present a … resources for health research and more activity in this area will lead to greater understanding of the problems and provide more …

Population growth, an unfinished agenda of communicable diseases and maternal health and nutrition, and the rapid rise … of Non-communicable diseases are putting increasing strain on not just the Ministry of Health budget, but also the … current and projected future economic conditions. But many of the health burdens and costs can be avoided, or at least delayed …

Samoa currently faces two important public policy challenges in the health sector. One is to stem, and then reverse …, the rapid rise of non-communicable diseases (NCDs). The second challenge is to put the country on a health-financing path … the share of government expenditure to health; (4) increasing external and donor financing; (5) increasing specific taxes …

discontinued Jampersal with the launching of the National Health Insurance Program (JKN) on January 1, 2014. The study?s findings …

Universal Health Coverage is a powerful framework for a nation aiming to protect their population against health risks … health coverage and improve financial protection in the last two decades. The country study, first, takes stock of UHC … progress in Vietnam, examining both the breadth and the depth of health coverage and assessing financial protection and equity …

Beginning in 2003, Turkey initiated a series of reforms under the Health Transformation Program (HTP) that over the … past decade have led to the achievement of universal health coverage (UHC). The progress of Turkey?s health system has few …, if any, parallels in scope and speed. Before the reforms, Turkey?s aggregate health indicators lagged behind those of …

While universal health coverage (UHC) offers a powerful goal for a nation, all countries-irrespective of income are … struggling with achieving or sustaining UHC. France is a high-income country where HC is in effect universal. Health …-related costs are covered by a mix of mandatory social health insurance (SHI) and private complementary schemes, while benefit …