From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Ruggiero, Mrs. Ana Lucia (WDC)</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ruglucia@paho.org">ruglucia@paho.org</a>></span><br><div class="gmail_quote">crossposted from: <a href="mailto:EQUIDAD@listserv.paho.org">EQUIDAD@listserv.paho.org</a><br>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><font color="maroon" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:maroon;font-weight:bold">Volume 12 Supplement 1<u></u><u></u></span></font></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><font color="maroon" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:maroon;font-weight:bold">Selected articles from Universal Coverage: Can We Guarantee

Health For All?<br>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">Proceedings from Universal Coverage:

Can We Guarantee Health For All?<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">BMC Public Health

2012, Volume 12 Supplement 1 (22 June 2012)<br>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><u></u><u></u><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial">Bandar Sunway</span></font><u></u><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial">, <u></u>Malaysia<u></u></span></font><u></u><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial"><u></u><u></u></span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial">3-4 October 2011<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial">Edited by Pascale Allotey, Daniel D

Reidpath, Shenglan Tang, Shajahan Yasin, Su Lin Chong and Julius Chee Ho Cheah<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial">Supported by Global Public Health, <u></u>Monash<u></u> <u></u>University<u></u>

Sunway Campus; Philips Healthcare; Deloitte and Touche, <u></u>Singapore<u></u>; and Sanofi Aventis <u></u><u></u>Malaysia<u></u><u></u><br>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">Universal coverage

in an era of privatisation: can we guarantee health for all?<u></u><u></u></span></font></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">Pascale Allotey, Shajahan Yasin,

Shenglan Tang, Su Lin Chong, Julius Cheah, Daniel D Reidpath <br>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB">УЕЕA

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.

<span style="color:rgb(51,51,255)">Embedded within the idea of UHC are two distinct notions</span>.<br>

First, <b>access to the full spectrum of health services</b> needs to include access

to preventive care through to palliative care and rehabilitative services. <br>

Second, <b>access to services for a whole population</b> means that everyone should be

able to enjoy the benefits of the health system, regardless of individual

economic, social, or geographic position. </span></font></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB">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<span style="color:rgb(51,51,255)"> inconsistent

</span>with an unconstrained free market. <br>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB">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 <span style="color:rgb(51,51,255)">systems in place to monitor</span> and evaluate the system. Е.Ф</span></font></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial"><br>

<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Vulnerability, equity and universal coverage

Ц a concept note<u></u><u></u></span></b></span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">Sharuna Verghis, Fatima

Alvarez-Castillo, Daniel D Reidpath <br>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">The fallacy of the

equity-efficiency trade off: rethinking the efficient health system<u></u><u></u></span></font></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">Daniel D Reidpath, Anna Olafsdottir,

Subhash Pokhrel, Pascale Allotey <br>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">Universal access:

making health systems work for women<u></u><u></u></span></font></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">TK Sundari Ravindran <br>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">The role of

insurance in the achievement of universal coverage within a developing country

context: South Africa

as a case study</span></font></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="NO-BOK">Alex M van den Heever <br>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">Why has the

Universal Coverage Scheme in <u></u><u></u>Thailand<u></u><u></u>

achieved a pro-poor public subsidy for health care?<u></u><u></u></span></font></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial">Supon Limwattananon, Viroj

Tangcharoensathien, Kanjana Tisayaticom, Tawekiat Boonyapaisarncharoen, Phusit

Prakongsai <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial"><br>

<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Financing Universal Coverage in <u></u><u></u>Malaysia<u></u><u></u>:

a case study<u></u><u></u></span></b></span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">Hong Teck Chua, Julius Cheah <br>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">Controlling cost

escalation of healthcare: making universal health coverage sustainable in China<u></u><u></u></span></font></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="NO-BOK">Shenglan Tang, Jingjing

Tao, Henk Bekedam <br>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">On residentsТ

satisfaction with community health services after health care system reform in <u></u><u></u>Shanghai<u></u>, <u></u>China<u></u><u></u>,

2011<u></u><u></u></span></font></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="FR">Zhijian Li, Jiale Hou, Lin

Lu, Shenglan Tang, Jin Ma <br>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">Policy initiation

and political levers in health policy: lessons from <u></u><u></u>Ghana<u></u><u></u>Тs health insurance<u></u><u></u></span></font></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">Anthony Seddoh, Samuel Akor <br>

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