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 …

. Causality has rarely been assessed due to the challenges posed by the endogeneity of health service supply. In this study, using … data from Mozambique, we investigate the effect of healthcare service availability, measured as the type of health … heterogeneous effects based on the distance of households to the closest health facility. We find that living in the proximity of a …

It is acknowledged that economic evaluation methods as they have been developed for Health Technology Assessment do not … capture all the costs and benefits relevant to the assessment of public health interventions. This paper reviews methods that … could be employed to measure and value the broader set of benefits generated by public health interventions. It is proposed …

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

Background: The National Health Mission (NHM), one of the largest publicly funded maternal health programs worldwide … care in India. Though evidence suggests improvement in maternal and child health, little is known on the change in OOPE and … catastrophic health spending (CHS) since the launch of NHM. Aim: The aim of this paper is to provide a comprehensive estimate of …

Вackground: In the last two decades, health care systems (HCS) in the European countries have faced global challenges … organizational structure and activities of health care providers, and in their interaction to improve service delivery. To describe …, distinctions in health care delivery organization in Russia are still significant. Changes in primary care are much less pronounced …

Objectives To optimise planning of public health services, the impact of high-cost users needs to be considered … administrative data that are associated with elevated health care resource use, and are increasingly available. This study aimed to … regression models. Results The machine learning models had far better accuracy in predicting high health-cost users compared with …