Background: As countries health financing policies are expected to support progress
towards universal health coverage (UHC), an analysis of these policies is particularly …

Migration is increasingly common in Africa, especially for employment. Migrants may face
additional barriers to accessing health care, including human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) …

This study explores the issue of demand for health care and medicines in low-income
country settings. Using the World Health Survey, multivariate analysis of cross-sectional …

Across the developing world, governments still lack the fiscal capacity to fund critical public
goods, alleviate poverty, and invest in economic development. Yet, we know little about how …

Realist reviews are a new form of knowledge synthesis aimed at providing middle-range
theories (MRTs) that specify how interventions work, for which populations, and under what …

Background A case study was prepared examining government resource contributions
(GRCs) to private-not-for-profit (PNFP) providers in Uganda. It focuses on Primary Health …

Background The last decade has seen widespread retreat from user fees with the intention
to reduce financial constraints to users in accessing health care and in particular improving …

The global financial crisis of 2008 has led to the reinforcement of patient cost sharing in
health care policy. This study aimed to explore the impact of direct out-of pocket payments …

Objective The choice of a particular health care facility is premised on certain factors which
remain largely unknown in rural settings in Ghana. The purpose of this study was to explore …

Highlights•The effect of enrolment in CBHI on child stunting is studied.•A year in CBHI is
reduces the probability of stunting by 4.3 percentage points.•Children of two or less years …