[EQ] Exploring the features of universal coverage

Special theme issue: health financing

Bulletin of the World Health Organization - November 2008, Volume 86, Number 11

Website: http://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/86/11/07-049387/en/index.html

EDITORIALS

Exploring the features of universal coverage
- Guy Carrin, Ke Xu, & David B Evans
Department of Health Systems Financing, Health Systems and Services, World Health Organization, Geneva  Switzerland.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.060137
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“……Designing and implementing a health financing policy for universal coverage is relatively simple in principle but complex in practice. This issue of the Bulletin explores how it can be done, drawing lessons from several country experiences.

Equity of access to health services of all types is key to universal coverage policy. High levels of out-of-pocket payments, including user fees, are still pervasive in many countries, limiting the ability of people to use service…..”

Universal coverage and health financing from China's perspective
- Shanlian Hu
doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.060046
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The positive contributions of global health initiatives
- Prerna Banati & Jean-Paul Moatti
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.049361
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News

Time is ripe for health-care reform. An interview with Paul Krugman
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“….The global financial crisis has created an environment that is more favourable to government intervention, social protection and health reform in the United States of America (USA) than in recent years. Paul Krugman, this year’s Nobel economics laureate, talks to the Bulletin about the challenges of pushing through health reform and the shape this could take after the 4 November presidential election….”

Devolved power: key for health care in India. An interview with Michael Tharakan.
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RESEARCH

Effect of mutual health organizations on use of priority health-care services in urban and rural Mali: a case-control study
- Lynne Miller Franco et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.051045
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The impact of user fees on health service utilization in low- and middle-income countries: how strong is the evidence?
- Mylene Lagarde & Natasha Palmer
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.049197
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Coping with out-of-pocket health payments: empirical evidence from 15 African countries
- Adam Leive & Ke Xu
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.049403
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POLICY & PRACTICE

Universal coverage of health services: tailoring its implementation
- Guy Carrin, Inke Mathauer, Ke Xu & David B Evans
Department of Health Systems Financing, Health Systems and Services, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.049387
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“….Out-of-pocket payments create financial barriers that prevent millions of people each year from seeking and receiving needed health services. In addition, many of those who do seek and pay for health services are confronted with financial catastrophe and impoverishment. People who do not use health services at all, or who suffer financial catastrophe are the extreme. Many others might forego only some services, or suffer less severe financial consequences imposed by user charges, but people everywhere, at all income levels, seek protection from the financial risks associated with ill health…..”

Development assistance for health: should policy-makers worry about its macroeconomic impact?
- Eleonora Cavagnero et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.053090
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Beyond fragmentation and towards universal coverage: insights from Ghana, South Africa and the United Republic of Tanzania
- Diana McIntyre et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.053413
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Are current debt relief initiatives an option for scaling up health financing in beneficiary countries?
- M Kaddar & E Furrer
doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.053686
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Resource allocation and purchasing in the health sector: the English experience
- Peter C Smith
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.049528
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ROUND TABLE

Can coutnries of the WHO Africa region wean themselves off donor funding for health?
- Joses Muthuri Kirigia & Alimata J Diarry-Nama
doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.054932
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Impossible to "wean" when more aid is needed
- Gorik Ooms & Wim Van Damme
doi: 10.241/BLT.08.059485
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Response to Ooms and Van Damme
- Joses Muthuri Kirigia & Alimata J Diarra-Nama
doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.060079
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The role of aid in the long term
- Felix Masiye
doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.058156
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PERSPECTIVES

Financing health promotion in Japan and Mongolia
- Dorjsuren Bayarsaikhan
doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.052126
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Can earmarking mobilize and sustain resources to the health sector?
- Phusit Prakongsai et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.049593
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Constraints and obstacles to social health protection in the Maghreb: the cases of Algeria and Morocco
- Driss Zine-Eddine El-Idrissi et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.053736
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PUBLIC HEALTH CLASSICS

The case for public intervention in financing health and medical services
- Jacky Mathonnat
doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.055707
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BOOKS & ELECTRONIC MEDIA

Research capacity for mental health in low- and middle-income countries: results of a mapping project
- Feng Wei
doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.053249
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