In recent years, governments of several low-income countries have taken decisive action by
removing fully or partially user fees in the health sector. In this study, we review recent …

User fee removal has been put forward as an approach to increasing priority health service
utilization, reducing impoverishment, and ultimately reducing maternal and neonatal …

Background Evidence on current, national physical activity (PA) and sedentary behaviour
(SB) policies is limited. We, therefore, analysed availability, comprehensiveness …

Neonatal deaths account for 40% of global under-five mortality and are ever more important
if we are to achieve the Millennium Development Goal 4 (MDG 4) on child survival. We …

Within the context of the Sustainable Development Goals, it is important to critically review
research on healthcare financing in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) from the perspective of the …

In Rethinking Diabetes, Emily Mendenhall investigates how global and local factors
transform how diabetes is perceived, experienced, and embodied from place to place …

ABSTRACT Background: Universal Health Coverage has become a political priority for
many African countries yet there are clear challenges in achieving this goal. Though social …

Introduction To reduce financial barriers to health care services presented by user fees,
Burkina Faso adopted a policy to subsidize deliveries and emergency obstetric care for the …

Evidence-based public health has commonly relied on findings from empirical studies, or
research-based evidence. However, this paper advocates that practice-based evidence …

Health financing policies are critical policy instruments to achieve Universal Health
Coverage, and they constitute a key area in policy analysis literature for the health policy …