First journal dedicated to bridging research, theory and analysis with knowledge and experience in h Editors-in-Chief
Michael R. Reich
Harvard T.H.
Chan School of Public Health
Boston, MA, US
Associate Editors
Health System Financing
William Hsiao - Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, US
Health System Management
Tricia J. Johnson - Rush University, Chicago, IL,US
Public Health
David Peters - Johns Hopkins Center for Global Health, Baltimore, MD, US
Health Policy
Elias Mossialos – The London School
of Economics, London, UK
Health Economics
Winnie Yip - Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Editorial Board
Irene Agyepong - University of Ghana School of Public Health, Legon, GH
Aikan Akanov - Kazak National Medical University, Almaty, KZ
Recep Akdag - Former Minister of Health, Turkey, Ankara, TR
Gady Al-Ageely - Former Deputy Minister of Health, Saudi Arabia, Riyadh, SA
Uche Amazigo - Former Director of African Program for Onchocerciasis Control, Ouagadougou, BF
Rifat Atun - Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, US
Peter Berman - Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, US
Kavi Bhalla - Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, US
Gerry Bloom - Institute of Developmental Studies, Brighton, UK
Thomas Bossert - Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA
Jesse Bump - Georgetown University, Washington, DC, US
Thomas Burke - Division of Global Health and Human Rights, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, US
Bechara Choucair - Commissioner of the Chicago Department of Public Health, Chicago, IL, US
Octavio Gomez Dantes - National Institute of Public Health, Mexico, Cuernavaca, MX
Maha El-Adawy - Reproductive Health and Health Systems, UNFPA, Cairo, EG
Tim Evans - Director of Health Nutrition & Population, World Bank, Washington, DC, US
Luiz Facchini - Federal University of Pelotas, Pelotas, BR
Julio Frenk - Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, US
Asha George - Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, US
Karen Grépin - Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, New York University, New York City, NY, US
Naoki Ikegami - Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, JP
Fadi Jardarli - Health Management and Policy, American University of Beirut, Beirut, LB
Haytham Kaarafani - Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, US
Panos Kanavos - London School of Economics, London, UK
Minah Kang - Ewha Womans University, Seoul, KR
Brian Kennedy - Buck Institute for Research on Aging, Novato, CA, US
Nabil Kronful - Lebanese Healthcare Management Association, Beirut, LB
Wipada Kunaviktikul - Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, TH
Joseph Kutzin - Health Financing and Economics, World Health Organization, Geneva, CH
Rafael Lozano - Center for Health Systems Research, National Institute of Public Health, Mexico, Cuernavaca, MX
Neil Lunt - Social Policy and Social Work, University of York, York, UK
Ajay Mahal - Monash University, Melbourne, AU
Nicholas Mays - London School of Hygiene and Topical Medicine, London, UK
Bruno Meessen - Institute for Topical Medicine Antwerp, Antwerp, BE
Tilek Meimanaliev - Former Minister of Health, Kyrgyzstan, Bishkek, KG
David Meltzer - Center for Health and the Social Sciences, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, US
Elias Mossialos - LSE Health, London School of Economics, London, UK
Corrina Moucheraud - UCLA Fielding School of Public Health
AK Nandakumar - Heller School for Social Management, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, US
Gustavo Nigenda - International Development Research Center, Ottawa, ON, CA
August Oesterle - Institute for Social Policy, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Vienna, AT
Friday Okonofua - Ford Foundation, Lagos, NG
Christopher Olapade - Center for Global Health, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, US
Stefan Peterson - Department of Public Health Sciences, Karolinska Instituet, Stockholm, SE
Diana Pinto - Health Lead Specialist, Interamerican Development Bank, Washington, DC, US
Ravi Rannan-Eliya - Institute of Health, Sri Lanka, Colombo, LK
Sujatha Rao - Former Secretary of Health, India, New Delhi, IN
Salman Rawaf - School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK
Caroline Rudissil - London School of Economics, London, UK
Shadi Saleh - Health Policy and Management, American University of Beirut, Beirut, LB
Helen Schneider - Faculty of Community and Health, University of Western Cape Town, Cape Town, ZA
Kenji Shibuya - Global Health Policy, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, JP
Sarah Thomson - LSE Health, London School of Economics, London, UK
Paul Thurman - Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York City, NY, U
Stephen Tollman - Health and Population Division, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, ZA
Goran Tomson - Health Systems and Policy Research Group, Karolinska Instituet, Stockholm, SE
Veronika Wirtz - School of Public Health, Boston University, Boston, MA, US
Bong-Min Yang - School of Public Health, Seoul National University, Seoul, KR
Abdo Yazbeck - World Bank, Washington, DC, US
Thomas Zeltner - University of Bern, Bern, CH
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In Cambodia, Health Equity Funds offers free health services at public facilities for the poor. However, many low-income households use private sector facilities for services that are covered by the public scheme. How to improve this?
Learn more now: https://buff.ly/3OqBvcm
SAVE THE DATE: SPARC will launch our Special Issue, “Making Progress on Strategic Health Purchasing in Africa,” tomorrow, Sept. 29th.
Click here to register for the virtual launch: https://buff.ly/3R33WOI
A multi-tiered medical education adopted in China more than 70 years ago has resulted in a threshold of entry-level medical education far below the global standards.
Read more about why the country should reform the physician licensing threshold: https://buff.ly/3NTNJtG
McBride & Moucheraud reexamine the traditional rural–urban definition to develop a new classification using Malawi as a case study to better identify populations with greater need and to better estimate the magnitude of geographic inequities.
Learn more: https://buff.ly/3b1RKh2
📢 We invite you to a virtual launch of our Special Issue, “Making Progress on Strategic Health Purchasing in Africa,” to be hosted by SPARC,
⏲️ 12:00 - 3.00 PM GMT
🗓️ 29 September 2022
Register for the webinar here: https://buff.ly/3R33WOI
In one of our recent articles, the authors explore how the demographic characteristics of Indian Members of Parliament are associated with child malnutrition and mortality throughout India, both of which remain major public health issues.
Read it now: https://buff.ly/3IX6hWT
Learn more about how 45 countries are designing essential packages of health services as a policy tool. In this article, the authors introduce new tools and methods for UHC policy analysts and researchers.
Read it now! https://buff.ly/3C8H3mm
SAVE THE DATE: SPARC will launch our Special Issue, “Making Progress on Strategic Health Purchasing in Africa,” on Sept. 29th.
Click here to register for the virtual launch: https://buff.ly/3R33WOI
By learning about the policy implications to address the challenges of UHC for migrant populations, governments could shape interventions to improve their health and socio-economic conditions in the context of COVID-19 and future pandemics.
Learn more: https://buff.ly/35XCRdF
Expanded financing through Seguro Popular’s FPGC sharply increased access to treatment for breast cancer in Mexico, but it needs to be coupled with effective interventions to assure earlier diagnosis and initiation of high-quality treatment.
Learn more: https://buff.ly/3cxD3nc
📢 We invite you to a virtual launch of our Special Issue, “Making Progress on Strategic Health Purchasing in Africa,” to be hosted by SPARC,
⏲️ 12:00 - 3.00 PM GMT
🗓️ 29 September 2022
Register for the webinar here: https://buff.ly/3R33WOI
Learn about the implementation experience underlying public financial management processes, mechanisms, and adjustments that accompanied the removal of user fees for primary care in Burkina Faso, Burundi and Niger.
Check our open-access article now: https://buff.ly/3Rn2Mxx
Colombia’s experience integrating Venezuelan migrants into their current health system through various insurance schemes during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic shows that access and equality can be achieved, although challenges remain.
Learn more: https://buff.ly/3R2uMqr
SAVE THE DATE: SPARC will launch our Special Issue, “Making Progress on Strategic Health Purchasing in Africa,” on Sept. 29th.
Click here to register for the virtual launch: https://buff.ly/3R33WOI
By learning about the policy implications to address the challenges of UHC for migrant populations, governments could shape interventions to improve their health and socio-economic conditions in the context of COVID-19 and future pandemics.
Learn more: https://buff.ly/35XCRdF
A recent article on access to medicines in Mexico…
Many countries in Latin America are seeking to implement strategic purchasing of medicines to expand health coverage and increase efficiency and equity. Recent reforms in Mexico bring four lessons relevant to governments in the region.
Learn more now: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23288604.2022.2084221
Many countries in Latin America are seeking to implement strategic purchasing of medicines to expand health coverage and increase efficiency and equity. Recent reforms in Mexico bring four lessons relevant to governments in the region.
Learn more now: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23288604.2022.2084221
Learn if health system reforms in Chile and Colombia in the 1990s maintained the improved equity from decentralization and why such reforms are more likely to be sustained if embedded in existing financial systems.
Read our open-access article now: https://buff.ly/3bLygxC
Explore cross-country findings applying the progress tracking framework in nine African countries in this research article from our most recent Special Issue ▶️ https://buff.ly/2MFTIH5
Did you know that there is a significant and positive effect of international remittances on the healthcare outcomes of childbearing mothers in Pakistan? Remittance receiving-households influence and increase the likelihood of utilizing prenatal healthcare, postnatal healthcare, and decisions about medical treatment for women.
Learn more: https://buff.ly/3ypWy9w
One of our latest papers explores the disparities in quality of antenatal care and family planning in Ethiopia. The results could help better target equity improvement initiatives and achieve the country's Health Sector Transformation Plan.
Read it now: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23288604.2022.2062808
In Cambodia, Health Equity Funds offers free health services at public facilities for the poor. However, many low-income households use private sector facilities for services that are covered by the public scheme. How to improve this?
Learn more now: https://buff.ly/3OqBvcm
Rwanda has progressed in many areas of . But more is needed to strengthen purchasers’ power to improve efficiency, efficacy, and accountability 🇷🇼
Find more in our Special Issue from Umuhoza et al: https://buff.ly/3yeanri
Pharmaceutical industry-led access programs are growing in number globally and are increasingly adopting a hybrid approach intended to generate commercial and social value in parallel. We developed and applied a new conceptual framework to systematically describe key features of these programs in order to better understand their hybrid nature.
Do performance-based financing programs in sub-Saharan Africa improve strategic purchasing within a country’s health financing arrangements?
Find out more in one of our latest and open-access articles from our Special Issue: https://buff.ly/3ObHkdq
McBride and Moucheraud reexamine the traditional binary rural–urban definition to develop a new classification that can be adopted globally, using Malawi as a case study. This will help researchers to better identify populations with greater need and to better estimate the magnitude of geographic inequities.
Learn more: https://buff.ly/3b1RKh2
Despite limited funding for health in many sub-Saharan African countries, some countries have improved health outcomes at low cost through —a growing trend.
Learn more about our new Special Issue from Obinna Onwujekwe & Prince Agwu: https://buff.ly/3QjKPQJ
"The highly heterogeneous education background of physicians in China has led to low standards of practicing physicians, which in turn have significantly negative impacts on the health care market."
Read more about why China should improve entry-level educational standards, by setting the physician licensing threshold at an appropriate level: https://buff.ly/3NTNJtG
is achievable for LICs & LMICs. This Health Systems and Reform paper by Agnes Gatome-Munyua, Isidore Sieleunou, Sory Orokia & Cheryl Cashin gives examples of countries in Africa, Asia & Latin America making it work. https://bit.ly/3L4y3Sa
Results for Development
Agnes Gatome-Munyua and Cheryl Cashin share an overview of our Special Issue with Results for Development and Strategic Purchasing Africa Resource Centre - SPARCSPARC_Africa —representing the largest body of work from Africa on by 40+ African authors.
Learn more now: https://buff.ly/3sDczFy
Our Special Issue with R4D & Strategic Purchasing Africa Resource Center —"Making Progress on in Africa"—features 17 papers by 43 experts (41 from African academic institutions, think tanks, policy agencies).
Learn more: https://buff.ly/3sg0hTw
"Making Progress on Strategic Health Purchasing in Africa", our new Special Issue, features 17 articles by 40+ authors from across Africa, showcasing expertise. Take a look: https://buff.ly/3sg0hTw
Here is a new special issue of Health Systems and Reform on Strategic Health Purchasing in Africa, with all papers Open Access by over 40 African authors.
Our Special Issue with R4D & Strategic Purchasing Africa Resource Center —"Making Progress on in Africa"—features 17 papers by 43 experts (41 from African academic institutions, think tanks, policy agencies).
Learn more: buff.ly/3sg0hTw
Our Special Issue with R4D & Strategic Purchasing Africa Resource Center —"Making Progress on in Africa"—features 17 papers by 43 experts (41 from African academic institutions, think tanks, policy agencies).
Learn more: buff.ly/3sg0hTw
During these last 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://buff.ly/3jh451W
Have you thought about the impact of COVID-19 on financing UHC progress? In this paper, the authors 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://buff.ly/3DSvnVD
Making progress toward Universal Health Coverage will require better benefits packages and financial protection to meet the health needs of older adults, especially the poorest and most vulnerable segments of elderly populations.
Learn more and share: https://buff.ly/3xb1KgZ
Policies aiming to reduce health inequities should not only foster more equitable service coverage but also focus on the social determinants of health.
Learn more about how inequalities in child health outcomes are related to socioeconomic inequalities: https://buff.ly/3v3xBha
In this article, Gaudin & Yazbeck demonstrated 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.
Read it now: https://buff.ly/3ukaAYf
Learn more about the systematic review by Watson, Yazbeck & 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://buff.ly/3r5PdYs
Through the Flagship Framework, Ozcelik and colleagues investigated how the organization of primary health care delivery in Brazil and Turkey can lead to measurable improvements in access to care 🇧🇷🇹🇷
Learn more: https://buff.ly/3KmVFSm
Attending both the operation and financing of India’s health care system and the Social Determinants of Health is needed to tackle the leading drivers of observed inequalities in forgone care for maternal and child health services across India.
Learn more: https://buff.ly/3DObj6S
Despite the achievements over the last 30 years, the Brazilian health system still faces challenges to guarantee financial protection to all Brazilians, particularly the poor 🇧🇷
Explore one of our Special Issue's research articles by Araujo & Coelho: https://buff.ly/3JfD6hH
Health financing reforms and safety nets are needed to reduce the financial consequences of ill-health in terms of increased health expenditure and reduced agricultural productivity.
Learn more from the evidence in rural Ethiopia 🇪🇹 https://buff.ly/3KovWt4
In one of the research articles from our Special Issue on Equity and Health Systems, Capuno, Kraft & O'Donnell estimated inpatient costs paid by the Philippines' National Health Insurance Program (PhilHealth) to learn how prepayment varies with the level of healthcare costs and between poorer and richer patients 🇵🇭
Learn more in this open-access paper: https://buff.ly/37mGnP4
In one of our recent articles, the authors explore how the demographic characteristics of Indian Members of Parliament are associated with child malnutrition and mortality throughout India, both of which remain major public health issues.
Read it now: https://buff.ly/3IX6hWT
The pandemic has increased the vulnerability of migrants around the world. Learn about the impact of COVID-19 on people on the move in Southern Africa land border communities, and the policy and practice challenges affecting both the cross-border migrants and host communities.
Our open-access commentary is available here: https://buff.ly/35XCRdF
In 2021, authors from all over the world shared their research in our journal on many of the most pressing challenges for health systems. Vol. 7, Issue 1 of 2021, includes a great and diverse collection of analyses and discussions from Ethiopia, Armenia, Cameroon, India, Nigeria, Canada, Russia, Kenya, Bangladesh, Mexico and South Africa! 🇪🇹🇦🇲🇨🇲🇮🇳🇳🇬🇨🇦🇷🇺🇰🇪🇧🇩🇲🇽🇿🇦
Read them now: https://buff.ly/3CtwTgn
Learn more about how 45 countries are designing essential packages of health services as a policy tool. In this article, the authors introduce new tools and methods for UHC policy analysts and researchers.
Read it now! https://buff.ly/3pyyOep
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