In 2019 Zambia introduced a National Health Insurance Scheme to help more people access healthcare and move the country closer to universal health coverage.
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Contracting out healthcare requires state capacity and public participation.
Research shows that decades of policy choices shaped today’s fragmented health care system – which is precisely why reform is so difficult.
Despite the historic passage of pharmacare legislation, its rollout remains uncertain. While some provinces have already reached deals with Ottawa, others remain in discussions.
Left out of FDR’s New Deal, the health insurance program for the poor was finally established in 1965.
Health care is universal in Australia, but this doesn’t mean seeing a doctor is always free.
Ontario is significantly expanding the number and range of medical procedures performed in privately run clinics. Here’s why that’s so problematic.
People who need the most health care – the poor and the chronically ill – miss out on care the most. But there are ways to reduce this inequity.
Singapore will start charging people who choose not to be vaccinated for any COVID-related hospital care. While Australia’s hospitals are also under pressure, we shouldn’t follow suit.
The US health system costs roughly twice as much as the Australian system per person. Despite this, the US has lower life expectancy than Australia.
American workers tend to lack many basic benefits that are incredibly common in other countries, a situation the ‘Essential Worker Bill of Rights’ aims to remedy.
Canadian and American religious groups are responding very differently to coronavirus public health measures. Why? In Canada, health care is more widely regarded as a public good and a right.
Without massive change, the US health care system will continue to be disorganized and inefficient.
With almost 30,000 Americans having succumbed to coronavirus, twice as many voters now want Medicare for All than are against it.
In the UK, nobody collects patients’ insurance information or credit card details. There’s simply no charge for services, including doctor visits, ambulances and hospitalizations.
Health care, immigration and trade have been hot topics during the campaign and are likely to come up during the fifth Democratic debate.
Only half of Kenya’s 47 counties achieved the 2000 goal on reducing child mortality
Universal Coverage Day came only three days shy of the deadline for open enrollment in the US. Why are much smaller, less wealthy countries such as Thailand pushing forward while the US is not?
Statistics suggest that the fight against poverty is far from being won in Kenya.
South Africa’s health care needs to be reformed so that everyone has access regardless of affordability or location.
Top contributors
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Honorary Enterprise Professor, School of Population and Global Health, and Department of General Practice and Primary Care, The University of Melbourne
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Adjunct Associate Professor, Menzies Centre for Health Policy and Economics, University of Sydney
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Senior postdoctoral research fellow, Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp
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Director of Research, Centre for Democratic Development Ghana
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Yunus Chair and Distinguished Professor of Health Economics, Glasgow Caledonian University
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Afrobarometer Project Manager for Francophone West Africa, based at the Institute for Empirical Research in Political Economy (IREEP), African School of Economics
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Programme Manager, Centre for Rural Health, University of the Witwatersrand
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Joint Director, Research and Policy, Public Health Foundation of India
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Senior Research Officer and the Afrobarometer Project Manager for Anglophone West Africa, Centre for Democratic Development Ghana
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Research Fellow, Tegemeo Institute, Egerton University
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Head, Population Health Unit, KEMRI, Kenya Medical Research Institute
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Assistant Professor, Colorado State University
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Director Rural Health Advocacy Project, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor of Economics, UMass Amherst
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Professor, Department of Health Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science