[PDF] The Road To Universal Health Coverage eBook

Author : Jeffrey L. Sturchio
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 48,81 MB
Release : 2019-01-15
Category : Medical
ISBN : 142142956X

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Srinath Reddy, Yasmine Rouai, Jeffrey L. Sturchio, Cicely Thomas, Tana Wuliji, Snow Yang, Pascal Zurn

Author : Swami Subramaniam
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 31,5 MB
Release : 2024-05-24
Category : Medical
ISBN :

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Rising affluence is triggering an explosion in lifestyle diseases, driving spiraling growth in healthcare costs and loss of productivity. If this is not checked there is a serious danger of India not realising its economic goals. The provision of healthcare to all Indian citizens, regardless of ability to pay, is a must if we are to avoid this danger. This raises the question - is Universal Health Coverage (UHC) feasible for a large middle-income country like India? The authors have deconstructed the healthcare system as it exists today - wasteful, expensive, and inefficient - to propose an alternative model that is both affordable and high-quality. The ideas presented here may look outrageous when viewed through the prism of what has been the norm, but the authors demonstrate the feasibility of the changes they propose by providing concrete examples of how the changes would work. UHC is within India's means if the political will to implement radical change of the kind described in this book can be mustered. Health for all citizens is not an option but an imperative for a just and thriving republic.

Author : Robert Basaza
Publisher : Nova Science Publishers
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 11,83 MB
Release : 2020-09-02
Category : Medical care
ISBN : 9781536183238

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"Access to healthcare is a universal human right and universal health insurance is one of the instruments towards attainment of universal health coverage. Universal health insurance has been proven to reduce catastrophic episodes at the point of receipt of healthcare to millions of households. This book elaborates on the Uganda's Journey to universal health insurance coverage and provides lessons that apply to other LMICs. The book elucidates Uganda's health financing system and details the proposed national health insurance schemes. Besides the local achievements, reference is also made to global success stories of Rwanda, Ghana, Tanzania, China, among others. Practitioners in similar settings will find this book handy in designing or operating appropriate health financing mechanisms. This book will further contribute towards global development of universal health coverage and subsequently ensure healthy lives and promote wellbeing"--

Author : World Health Organization
Publisher :
Page : 25 pages
File Size : 36,80 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Health care reform
ISBN :

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"Universal Health Coverage (UHC) is central to achieving better health and well-being for all people at all ages. It delivers disease prevention, health promotion, and treatment for communicable and noncommunicable diseases alike, while ensuring that individuals are not driven into poverty because of high costs. UHC is not an end in itself: its goal is to improve the chances of every person attaining the highest level of health and well-being and contributing to socioeconomic and sustainable development. Attaining UHC is thus essential to every nation's economic productivity, health security, social stability--and to every individual's well-being, security, and productivity."--

Author : Kristina Lyn Heitkamp
Publisher : Greenhaven Publishing LLC
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 39,87 MB
Release : 2018-07-15
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 1534503161

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With the Affordable Care Act signed into law in 2010, the United States seemed closer than ever to achieving universal health care. However, repealing the act has been a key goal for the Trump administration and the Republican-controlled Congress, with the main arguments against it including the higher premiums for middle-class Americans and the abuse of government power through its control of the insurance industry. This volume helps define universal health care, explains the arguments for and against it, and discusses attempts to implement it on an international scale.

Author : Jesse B. Bump
Publisher :
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 25,42 MB
Release : 2010
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Health systems are among the most important elements of the social contract that defines modern nations. This paper investigates the historical origins of universal health care (UHC) systems and analyzes the politics surrounding the national decision to implement them. Understanding how, when, and why countries have established UHC systems sheds light on current international assistance strategies to encourage the same transition in developing countries. First, Dr. Bump analyzes definitions of UHC to distill the important elements and discuss their primary assumptions, including their commitments to solidarity, redistribution, and government responsibility. He then focuses on the development of the two main financing models--social health insurance (Germany) and general taxation (United Kingdom)--and then follows global-level attempts to promote UHC over the past century. Dr. Bump finds that international aid agencies have not played a significant role in fostering the spread of UHC systems in the past. Beyond the possibility of fostering international learning and providing resources, there is no clear evidence in support of any particular role for international actors in fostering UHC systems.

Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 11,91 MB
Release : 2019-01-27
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0309477891

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In 2015, building on the advances of the Millennium Development Goals, the United Nations adopted Sustainable Development Goals that include an explicit commitment to achieve universal health coverage by 2030. However, enormous gaps remain between what is achievable in human health and where global health stands today, and progress has been both incomplete and unevenly distributed. In order to meet this goal, a deliberate and comprehensive effort is needed to improve the quality of health care services globally. Crossing the Global Quality Chasm: Improving Health Care Worldwide focuses on one particular shortfall in health care affecting global populations: defects in the quality of care. This study reviews the available evidence on the quality of care worldwide and makes recommendations to improve health care quality globally while expanding access to preventive and therapeutic services, with a focus in low-resource areas. Crossing the Global Quality Chasm emphasizes the organization and delivery of safe and effective care at the patient/provider interface. This study explores issues of access to services and commodities, effectiveness, safety, efficiency, and equity. Focusing on front line service delivery that can directly impact health outcomes for individuals and populations, this book will be an essential guide for key stakeholders, governments, donors, health systems, and others involved in health care.