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">“……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.
<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. ….”</span></font></p>
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<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Vulnerability, equity and universal coverage
– 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 residents’
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>’s 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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