Executive summary The COVID-19 pandemic has brought the need for well-functioning
primary health care (PHC) into sharp focus. PHC is the best platform for providing basic …

Summary 2023 marks the 20-year anniversary of the creation of Mexico's System of Social
Protection for Health and the Seguro Popular, a model for the global quest to achieve …

Any effort to improve health system performance must address the challenges of policy
implementation. This article examines one aspect of implementation—the politics of policy …

Background Despite political promise to reduce out-of-pocket (OOP) expenditure on
healthcare through the National Health Insurance Program (NHIP) of Nepal, its …

Due to constraints on institutional capacity and financial resources, the road to universal
health coverage (UHC) involves difficult policy choices. To assist with these choices …

It is not uncommon that collaborative governance is now generating new attention in
Indonesia as a method of governing. This is because of the terrible historical experience of …

Background Implementation of health financing reforms for Universal Health Coverage
(UHC) is inherently political. Despite the political determinants of UHC, health financing …

Fee-for-service remains a popular mode of paying for healthcare despite widespread
knowledge of its ill effects. This has resulted in a gap between policy knowledge …

The uptake and implementation of universal health coverage (UHC) is primarily a political,
rather than a technical, exercise, with contested ideas and diverse stakeholders capable of …

After decades of neglect, in 2008, the Indian government launched a national health
insurance programme to address the needs of the bulk of the population that could not afford …