In 1996 the Tanzanian government initiated community health insurance schemes to improve the access to health care and … to protect people against the financial cost of illness in an environment with shrinking budgets for the health sector …. This study aims to evaluate the role of the community health funds (CHF) in lowering the barriers to access health care …

In 1996 the Tanzanian government initiated community health insurance schemes to improve the access to health care and … to protect people against the financial cost of illness in an environment with shrinking budgets for the health sector …. This study aims to evaluate the role of the community health funds (CHF) in lowering the barriers to access health care …

COVID-19 has underlined that in a context of recurring pandemics, public health is a basic global public good, the … prevailing framework. This Policy Contribution positions global public health governance in the wider debate on the reform of … ingredients have been important, and two were clearly present in public health: joint identification of the problem, and shared …

Understanding health-seeking behaviors and their drivers is key for governments to manage health policies. There is a … growing literature on the role of cognitive biases and heuristics in health and care-seeking behaviors, but little is known of … preventive health behaviors during the COVID-19 pandemic (use of masks, distance, hand washing, and COVID-19 vaccination) and in …

Understanding of the substantial disparity in health between low and high socioeconomic status (SES) groups is hampered … disparities in health by SES. In our model, lifestyle factors, working conditions, retirement, living conditions and curative care … are mechanisms through which SES, health and mortality are related. Our model predicts a widening and possibly a …

This study explores global inequality in health status, and decomposes it into within- andbetween-country inequality …. We rely on standardized height indicators as our health indicator sincethey avoid the measurement pitfalls of more … traditional measures of health such as morbidity,mortality and life expectancy. They also avoid measurement problems associated …