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Dear readers, authors, and friends,
Health Systems & Reform has just completed its 7th year of publication, including two years as a fully Open Access journal. Our Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Michael R. Reich, shares some results and great news, and thanks all of you for helping us grow our community.
Adam Wagstaff was passionate about putting research into practice. "He did so in many ways, all of which have profoundly and lastingly influenced health policy worldwide." โ Mamta Murthi & Muhammad Ali Pate.
Read more about Wagstaff's legacy:
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Indiaโs quest to achieve pro-poor UHC should be supported with robust health financing equity analysis.
Chatterjee & Smith contribute to this goal by assessing the equity and effectiveness of public spending on health in Odisha, India ๐ฎ๐ณ
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The Romanian experience presents three lessons for generating political priority to address inequitable access to high-quality primary health care reforms ๐ท๐ด
Explore authors' findings in this Special Issue research article by Wang, Adanna Chukwuma, Radu Comsa, Tania Dmytraczenko, Estelle Gong & Lidia Onofre:
https://buff.ly/3r2BuRm
Learn more about the first analysis of trends in socioeconomic-related inequalities in health-adjusted life expectancy.
These findings indicate how far South Africa has come in achieving its goal of improving population health outcomes:
https://buff.ly/3n99dr1
During these last two months, we have been sharing commentaries and research articles from our Special Issue on Equity and Health Systems in Honor of Adam Wagstaff.
Learn more about how Adam's legacy as a researcher, leader and mentor shaped this issue:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23288604.2021.1968564
Authors, friends and colleagues: Eddy Van Doorslaer, Owen O'Donnell, Davidson Gwatkin, Abdo Yazbeck, Magnus Lindelow, Caryn Bredenkamp, Winnie Yip, Sarah Bales, Diane McIntyre, Deon Filmer, Damien de Walque, Agnรจs Couffinhal & Reem Hafez.
Have you thought about the impact of COVID-19 on financing UHC progress?
In this paper, Susan Powers Sparkes, Patrick Eozenou, David Evans, Christoph Kurowski, Joseph Kutzin & Ajay Tandon consider the implications of the crisis to identify policies that can safeguard progress and protect health for all in the decades to come.
Read it here:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23288604.2021.1929796
#health #covid #UHC #health4all
Making progress toward Universal Health Coverage will require better benefits packages and financial protection to meet the health needs of older adults, and especially the poorest and most vulnerable segments of elderly populations.
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https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23288604.2021.1911067
Authors: Patrick Eozenou, Sven Neelsen & Marc-Francoise Smitz
In this article, Sylvestre Gaudin & Abdo Yazbeck demonstrate that Public Expenditure Reviews (PERs) can be used beyond the country level to reveal dominant patterns in health-system challenges and opportunities in developing countries.
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https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23288604.2021.1902671
#health #healthsystems #healthcare #healtheconomics
Learn more about the systematic review by Julia Watson, Abdo Yazbeck & Lauren Hartel of published research on health insurance and equity, and the evidence on what works and what does not in serving the needs of the poor in the health sector.
Read it now:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23288604.2021.1917092
#health #research #healthsystems #healthpolicy