PHM-Exch> Selected articles from Universal Coverage: Can We Guarantee Health For All?

[Claudio Schuftan]

From: Ruggiero, Mrs. Ana Lucia (WDC) <ruglucia at paho.org>
crossposted from: EQUIDAD at listserv.paho.org


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*Volume 12 Supplement 1*

*Selected articles from Universal Coverage: Can We Guarantee Health For All?

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Proceedings from Universal Coverage: Can We Guarantee Health For All?****

*BMC Public Health 2012, Volume 12 Supplement 1 (22 June 2012)

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Website: http://bit.ly/N38z6Q

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****Bandar Sunway**, **Malaysia********

3-4 October 2011****

Edited by Pascale Allotey, Daniel D Reidpath, Shenglan Tang, Shajahan
Yasin, Su Lin Chong and Julius Chee Ho Cheah****

Supported by Global Public Health, **Monash** **University** Sunway Campus;
Philips Healthcare; Deloitte and Touche, **Singapore**; and Sanofi Aventis *
***Malaysia****

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*Universal coverage in an era of privatisation: can we guarantee health for
all?*

Pascale Allotey, Shajahan Yasin, Shenglan Tang, Su Lin Chong, Julius Cheah,
Daniel D Reidpath

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“……A government that claims to provide universal health coverage (UHC)
needs to establish that access to health services is available for the
whole population for the full spectrum of services without risk of undue
financial hardship. Embedded within the idea of UHC are two distinct notions
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First, *access to the full spectrum of health services* needs to include
access to preventive care through to palliative care and rehabilitative
services.
Second, *access to services for a whole population* means that everyone
should be able to enjoy the benefits of the health system, regardless of
individual economic, social, or geographic position.

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Those in favour of UHC see health as a public good not simply an individual
benefit, and they recognise that, as a consequence of this view, the
implementation of UHC requires a level of regulation and a kind of
investment that is inconsistent with an unconstrained free market.

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The challenge for government is in selecting the mix of regulatory and
financing mechanisms for the chosen, universally available, health
services. This also presupposes that the parcel of health services that
will be available has been identified, and there are systems in place to
monitor and evaluate the system. ….”

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*Vulnerability, equity and universal coverage – a concept note*

Sharuna Verghis, Fatima Alvarez-Castillo, Daniel D Reidpath

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*The fallacy of the equity-efficiency trade off: rethinking the efficient
health system*

Daniel D Reidpath, Anna Olafsdottir, Subhash Pokhrel, Pascale Allotey

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*Universal access: making health systems work for women*

TK Sundari Ravindran

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*The role of insurance in the achievement of universal coverage within a
developing country context: South Africa as a case study*

Alex M van den Heever

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*Why has the Universal Coverage Scheme in Thailand achieved a pro-poor
public subsidy for health care?*

Supon Limwattananon, Viroj Tangcharoensathien, Kanjana Tisayaticom,
Tawekiat Boonyapaisarncharoen, Phusit Prakongsai ****


*Financing Universal Coverage in Malaysia: a case study*

Hong Teck Chua, Julius Cheah

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*Controlling cost escalation of healthcare: making universal health
coverage sustainable in China*

Shenglan Tang, Jingjing Tao, Henk Bekedam

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*On residents’ satisfaction with community health services after health
care system reform in Shanghai, China, 2011*

Zhijian Li, Jiale Hou, Lin Lu, Shenglan Tang, Jin Ma

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*Policy initiation and political levers in health policy: lessons from Ghana’s
health insurance*

Anthony Seddoh, Samuel Akor

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