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<h3 style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><b><font color="maroon" face="Arial" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: maroon;">Special theme issue:
health financing<br>
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</span></font></b><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">Bulletin of the World Health Organization
- November 2008, Volume 86, Number 11<br>
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<p style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><b><font color="maroon" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: maroon; font-weight: bold;">Exploring
the features of universal coverage</span></font></b><b><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy; font-weight: bold;"><br>
</span></font></b><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">- Guy Carrin, Ke Xu, & David B Evans<br>
Department of Health Systems Financing, Health Systems and Services, World
Health Organization, Geneva  Switzerland.<br>
doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.060137<br>
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<p style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">"……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.</span></font></p>

<p style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">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….."</span></font></p>

<p style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><b><font color="maroon" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: maroon; font-weight: bold;">Universal
coverage and health financing from China's perspective<br>
</span></font></b><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">- Shanlian Hu<br>
doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.060046<br>
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<p style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><b><font color="maroon" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: maroon; font-weight: bold;">The
positive contributions of global health initiatives<br>
</span></font></b><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">- Prerna Banati & Jean-Paul Moatti<br>
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.049361<br>
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<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Time is ripe for health-care reform. An
interview with Paul Krugman<br>
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<p style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">"….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…."<br clear="all">
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</span></font><b><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy; font-weight: bold;">Devolved power: key for
health care in India. An interview with Michael Tharakan.<br>
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<h3 style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><b><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy; text-transform: uppercase; font-weight: normal;">RESEARCH</span></font></b></h3>

<p style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><b><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy; font-weight: bold;">Effect of
mutual health organizations on use of priority health-care services in urban
and rural Mali:
a case-control study<br>
</span></font></b><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">- Lynne Miller Franco et al.<br>
doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.051045<br>
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<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">The impact of user fees on health service
utilization in low- and middle-income countries: how strong is the evidence?<br>
</span></b>- Mylene Lagarde & Natasha Palmer<br>
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.049197<br>
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<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Coping with out-of-pocket health payments:
empirical evidence from 15 African countries<br>
</span></b>- Adam Leive & Ke Xu<br>
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.049403<br>
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<b><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy; text-transform: uppercase; font-weight: bold;">POLICY &
PRACTICE</span></font></b><font size="1"><span style="font-size: 8pt; text-transform: uppercase;"></span></font></p>

<p style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><b><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy; font-weight: bold;">Universal coverage of health services: tailoring its
implementation<br>
</span></font></b><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">- Guy Carrin, Inke Mathauer, Ke Xu &
David B Evans<br>
Department of Health Systems Financing, Health Systems and Services, World
Health Organization, Geneva,
 Switzerland.<br>
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.049387<br>
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"….</span></font><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">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….."</span></font></p>

<p style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><b><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy; font-weight: bold;"><br>
Development assistance for health: should policy-makers worry about its
macroeconomic impact?<br>
</span></font></b><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">- Eleonora Cavagnero et al.<br>
doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.053090<br>
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fragmentation and towards universal coverage: insights from Ghana, South
 Africa and the United
Republic of Tanzania<br>
</span></font></b><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">- Diana McIntyre et al.<br>
doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.053413<br>
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current debt relief initiatives an option for scaling up health financing in
beneficiary countries?<br>
</span></font></b><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">- M Kaddar & E Furrer<br>
doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.053686<br>
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allocation and purchasing in the health sector: the English experience<br>
</span></font></b><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">- Peter C Smith<br>
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.049528<br>
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<p style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><b><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy; font-weight: bold;">Can
coutnries of the WHO Africa region wean themselves off donor funding for
health?<br>
</span></font></b><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">- Joses Muthuri Kirigia & Alimata J
Diarry-Nama<br>
doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.054932<br>
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<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Impossible to "wean" when more aid
is needed<br>
</span></b>- Gorik Ooms & Wim Van Damme<br>
doi: 10.241/BLT.08.059485 <br>
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<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Response to Ooms and Van Damme<br>
</span></b>- Joses Muthuri Kirigia & Alimata J Diarra-Nama<br>
doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.060079<br>
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long term<br>
</span></font></b><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">- Felix Masiye<br>
doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.058156<br>
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health promotion in Japan
and Mongolia<br>
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doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.052126<br>
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to the health sector?<br>
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doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.049593<br>
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protection in the Maghreb: the cases of Algeria
and Morocco<br>
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doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.053736<br>
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for public intervention in financing health and medical services<br>
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doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.055707<br>
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capacity for mental health in low- and middle-income countries: results of a
mapping project<br>
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doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.053249<br>
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