Background Despite more than 20 years of reform projects in health systems, the universal
coverage strategy has not reached the expected results in most middle-income countries …

Background Seven years after the commitment to United Nations' call for Universal Health
Coverage, healthcare services in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico are generally …

In 1993, the World Bank published Disease Control Priorities in Developing Countries
(DCP1), an attempt to systematically assess value for money (cost-effectiveness) of …

The region has made considerable progress implementing schemes aimed at expanding
universal health coverage in the past quarter-century. Measureable improvements in equity …

Mexico is reaching universal health coverage in 2012. A national health insurance
programme called Seguro Popular, introduced in 2003, is providing access to a package of …

Notwithstanding good average health indicators, Chile has a poor ranking in terms of
economic equality. In the last decades the epidemiological profile has changed substantially …

Over the last hundred years, most countries have made substantial progress toward
universal health coverage. The shared trends includes rising incomes, increasing total …

Jan De Maeseneer et al. 796 alumni from a medical school in Uganda found an influence of
the PEPFAR projects on career choices of health professionals, with almost half working for …

In 2008, Ecuador underwent a major health reform with the aim of universal coverage. Little
is known about the implementation of the reform and its perceived effects in rural parts of the …

de salud: operacionalizando Page 1 ENSAYO 180 salud pública de méxico / vol. 57, no. 2,
marzo-abril de 2015 Fajardo-Dolci G y col. ENSAYO Acceso efectivo a los servicios de salud …