Creating Momentum for Universal Health Coverage (UHC) in Bangladesh
Author: Syed Masud Ahmed
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Published: 2017
Total Pages: 78
ISBN-13: 9789843417589
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The Path to Universal Health Coverage in Bangladesh
Author: Sameh El-Saharty
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Published: 2015-06-02
Total Pages: 127
ISBN-13: 1464805377
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBangladesh is committed to achieving universal health coverage (UHC) by 2032; to this end, the government of Bangladesh is exploring policy options to increase fiscal space for health and expand coverage while improving service quality and availability. Despite Bangladesh’s impressive strides in improving its economic and social development outcomes, the government still confronts health financing and service delivery challenges. In its review of the health system, this study highlights the limited fiscal space for implementing UHC in Bangladesh, particularly given low public spending for health and high out-of-pocket expenditure. The crisis in the country’s human resources for health (HRH) compounds public health service delivery inefficiencies. As the government explores options to finance its UHC plan, it must recognize that reform of its service delivery system with particular focus on HRH has to be the centerpiece of any policy initiative.
Building Awareness on Universal Health Coverage (UHC)
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Published: 2017
Total Pages: 58
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKUniversal Health Coverage for Inclusive and Sustainable Development
Author: Akiko Maeda
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Published: 2014-07-03
Total Pages: 75
ISBN-13: 146480298X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe goals of universal health coverage (UHC) are to ensure that all people can access quality health services, to safeguard all people from public health risks, and to protect all people from impoverishment due to illness, whether from out-of-pocket payments for health care or loss of income when a household member falls sick. Countries as diverse as Brazil, France, Japan, Thailand, and Turkey have shown how UHC can serve as vital mechanisms for improving the health and welfare of their citizens, and lay the foundation for economic growth and competitiveness grounded in the principles of equity and sustainability. Ensuring universal access to affordable, quality health services will be an important contribution to ending extreme poverty by 2030 and boosting shared prosperity in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs), where most of the world's poor live. The book synthesizes the experiences from 11 countries – Bangladesh, Brazil, France, Ethiopia, Ghana, Indonesia, Japan, Peru, Thailand, Turkey and Vietnam – in implementing policies and strategies to achieve and sustain UHC. These countries represent diverse geographic and economic conditions, but all have committed to UHC as a key national aspiration and are approaching it in different ways. The study examined the UHC policies for each country around three common themes: (i) the political economy and policy process for adopting, achieving, and sustaining UHC; (ii) health financing policies to enhance health coverage; and (iii) human resources for health policies for achieving UHC. The findings from these country studies are intended to provide lessons that can be used by countries aspiring to adopt, achieve, and sustain UHC. Although the path to UHC is specific to each country, countries can benefit from the experiences of others in learning about different approaches and avoiding potential risks.
Path to Universal Health Coverage in Bangladesh
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Published: 2015
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKProposed 'Sports for UHC Model' As Innovative Financing Option for Moving Towards Universal Health Coverage
Author: Abul Hasan BakiBillah
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Published: 2017
Total Pages: 0
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKIntroduction: Sports bears gargantuan potentials with an aim to achieve universal health coverage (UHC) through mitigating the existing financing gap prevalent across the globe including the countries have been failed to move the pathway of UHC. In order to prevailing a lack of study on this phenomenal issue, indeed uplifts my interest to work for presenting a scientific study where Bangladesh, a low middle income country, has been considered as sample country. Objectives: This study is conducted for exploring “Sport for UHC Model” as an innovative, pragmatic, and sustainable financing option for moving towards universal health coverage in any country. This model initially has been tried to fit in with Bangladesh hypothetically based on the secondary data related to the status of sports, especially cricket which is the most popular sport in Bangladesh. Methodology: Both exploratory and descriptive research approach used in conducting this study where key informant interview dealt with the personnel of Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB), Bangladesh Football Federation (BFF), and Directorate General of Health Economics Unit (DGHEU). Findings: Predominantly, Sports for UHC Model has been developed through this study for mitigating the financing gap required for achieving universal health coverage in different countries. In this case, financing gap between the actual required level of achieving UHC and the projected estimation of total public health expenditure, with 6% growth rate, prevails in Bangladesh. In response to that gap, unmasking the innovative financing options is imperative. On that ground, the possible revenue from those international cricket matches happened between 2015 and 2016 is BDT 15,49,000 if BDT 5 is cut from each ticket price and it would be BDT 30,98,000, if BDT 10 is cut from each ticket price. Conclusions: Moving towards UHC through generating innovative financing, “Sports for UHC model” bears potential intuition to play role as a financing gap alleviator in public health sector.
Global Diffusion of EHealth: Making Universal Health Coverage Achievable
Author: World Health Organization
Publisher: World Health Organization
Published: 2017-03-27
Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9241511788
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis third global survey of the WHO Global Observatory for eHealth (GOe) investigated how eHealth can support universal health coverage(UHC) in Member States. A total of 125 countries participated in the survey ? a clear reflection of the growing interest in this area. The report considers eHealth foundations built through policy development funding approaches and capacity building in eHealth through the training of students and professionals. It then observes specific eHealth applications such as mHealth telehealth electronic health records systems and eLearning and how these contribute to the goals of UHC. Of interest is the extent to which legal frameworks protect patient privacy in EHRs as health care systems move towards to delivering safer more efficient and more accessible health care. Finally the rapidly emerging areas of social media for health care as well as big data for research and planning are reported.
Bangladesh Health System Review
Author: WHO Regional Office for the Western Pacific
Publisher: Health Systems in Transition
Published: 2015-09-02
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9789290617051
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Health Systems in Transition (HiT) profiles are country-based reports that provide a detailed description of a health system and of reform and policy initiatives in progress or under development in a specific country. Each profile is produced by country experts in collaboration with an international editor. In order to facilitate comparisons between countries, the profiles are based on a common template used by the Asia Pacific and European Observatories on Health Systems and Policies. The template provides detailed guidelines and specific questions, definitions and examples needed to compile a profile.
Going Universal
Author: Daniel Cotlear
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Published: 2015-09-28
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 146480611X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is about 24 developing countries that have embarked on the journey towards universal health coverage (UHC) following a bottom-up approach, with a special focus on the poor and vulnerable, through a systematic data collection that provides practical insights to policymakers and practitioners. Each of the UHC programs analyzed in this book is seeking to overcome the legacy of inequality by tackling both a “financing gap†? and a “provision gap†?: the financing gap (or lower per capita spending on the poor) by spending additional resources in a pro-poor way; the provision gap (or underperformance of service delivery for the poor) by expanding supply and changing incentives in a variety of ways. The prevailing view seems to indicate that UHC require not just more money, but also a focus on changing the rules of the game for spending health system resources. The book does not attempt to identify best practices, but rather aims to help policy makers understand the options they face, and help develop a new operational research agenda. The main chapters are focused on providing a granular understanding of policy design, while the appendixes offer a systematic review of the literature attempting to evaluate UHC program impact on access to services, on financial protection, and on health outcomes.
Investing to Overcome the Global Impact of Neglected Tropical Diseases
Author: World Health Organization
Publisher: World Health Organization
Published: 2015-08-05
Total Pages: 211
ISBN-13: 9241564865
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The presence, or absence, of neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) can be seen as a proxy for poverty and for the success of interventions aimed at reducing poverty. Today, coverage of the public-health interventions recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO) against NTDs may be interpreted as a proxy for universal health coverage and shared prosperity - in short, a proxy for coverage against neglect. As the world's focus shifts from development to sustainable development, from poverty eradication to shared prosperity, and from disease-specific goals to universal health coverage, control of NTDs will assume an important role towards the target of achieving universal health coverage, including individual financial risk protection. Success in overcoming NTDs is a "litmus test" for universal health coverage against NTDs in endemic countries. The first WHO report on NTDs (2010) set the scene by presenting the evidence for how these interventions had produced results. The second report (2013) assessed the progress made in deploying them and detailed the obstacles to their implementation. This third report analyses for the first time the investments needed to achieve the scale up of implementation required to achieve the targets of the WHO Roadmap on NTDs and universal coverage against NTDs. INVESTING TO OVERCOME THE GLOBAL IMPACT OF NEGLECTED TROPICAL DISEASES presents an investment strategy for NTDs and analyses the specific investment case for prevention, control, elimination and eradication of 12 of the 17 NTDs. Such an analysis is justified following the adoption by the Sixty-sixth World Health Assembly in 2013 of resolution WHA6612 on neglected tropical diseases, which called for sufficient and predictable funding to achieve the Roadmap's targets and sustain control efforts. The report cautions, however, that it is wise investment and not investment alone that will yield success. The report registers progress and challenges and signals those that lie ahead. Climate change is expected to increase the spread of several vector-borne NTDs, notably dengue, transmission of which is directly influenced by temperature, rainfall, relative humidity and climate variability primarily through their effects on the vector. Investments in vector-borne diseases will avoid the potentially catastrophic expenditures associated with their control. The presence of NTDs will thereby signal an early warning system for climate-sensitive diseases. The ultimate goal is to deliver enhanced and equitable interventions to the most marginalized populations in the context of a changing public-health and investment landscape to ensure that all peoples affected by NTDs have an opportunity to lead healthier and wealthier lives."--Publisher's description.
