Background Universal health coverage (UHC) aims to provide quality healthcare services and safeguard the population … from the fnancial burden of catastrophic health expenditure. Its primary objectives are to improve longevity and enhance …) and explores whether public health programs can reduce social inequality. By employing SWB inequality as a measure, we go …

Background: Regardless of its form, financing health in isolation will never raise sufficient funds to lead to … universal health coverage. Achieving this goal which is not a pure health policy, requires multisectoral collaboration to … support financing mechanisms. Within this framework, the World Health Organization has created the Health Financing Progress …

overweight and obesity. Methods: Longitudinal data from post- (T2) and follow-up (T3) measurements of a school-based health …

Background: The term “reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health (RMNCH)” describes an integrated continuum of … health states which is central to Millennium Development Goals 4 and 5. While the burden of mortality and morbidity … databases checked were Medline (Pubmed), Embase and ECONbase, EconLit, the Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health (CINAHL …

Demographic and Health Survey of 2008 - 2009 together with additional administrative data. Both a single-level model and a multi … on birth weight. The results imply that infant health can be improved by using prenatal care adequately. The study calls … availability of skilled health care providers such as doctors and nurses at prenatal care clinics, reducing the average distances …

The study investigates the effect of wealth on maternal health care utilization in Ghana via its effect on Antenatal … care use. Antenatal care serves as the initial point of contact of expectant mothers to maternal health care providers … before delivery. The study is pivoted on the introduction of the free maternal health care policy in April 2005 in Ghana with …

Background: In April 2016, Burkina Faso introduced a free health care policy for women. Instead of reimbursing health … and health facility characteristics associated with OOP payments. Methods: A national cross-sectional study was conducted … in September and October 2016 in 395 randomly selected health facilities. A structured questionnaire was administered to …

This study evaluates the impact of Sierra Leone’s 2010 Free Health Care Initiative (FHCI). It uses two nationally … mothers as well as the impact on curative health care services and out-of-pocket payments for consultation and prescription in … that children affected by the FHCI have a lower probability of incurring any health expenditure in public, non …

, where over 70 % of communities in rural areas access basic healthcare from primary health facilities. Systematic Community … Engagement (SCE) in healthcare quality assessment remains a grey area in many health systems in Africa, albeit the increasing … interventions that involve existing community groups engaged in healthcare quality assessment in 32 intervention primary health …

providers without formal training to deliver a large proportion of health services. Without institutions that facilitate … appropriate health care transactions, patients tend to navigate health care markets from one inappropriate provider to another … data from Nigeria, we found that community health committees sometimes seek to limit informal providers in a manner that is …