Background Comprehensive and comparable estimates of health spending in each country
are a key input for health policy and planning, and are necessary to support the …

The new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to 2030 aim to reduce maternal mortality
and provide equitable access to maternal healthcare. Compromised access to maternal …

People in poor countries tend to have less access to health services than those in better‐off
countries, and within countries, the poor have less access to health services. This article …

Introduction This research article reports on factors influencing initial voluntary uptake of
community-based health insurance (CBHI) schemes in low-and middle-income countries …

¿ Cómo se puede resolver este rompecabezas de mayores demandas y fortalecimiento
fiscal? Esta edición de Desarrollo en las Américas (DIA) se centra precisamente en esta …

Background An adequate amount of prepaid resources for health is important to ensure
access to health services and for the pursuit of universal health coverage. Previous studies …

Background Low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs) have difficulties achieving
universal financial protection, which is primordial for universal health coverage. A promising …

South Korea introduced mandatory social health insurance for industrial workers in large
corporations in 1977, and extended it incrementally to the self-employed until it covered the …

Financial risk protection is a key component of universal health coverage (UHC), which is
defined as access to all needed quality health services without financial hardship. As part of …

This book is about global social policy. Global social policy consists of two things: first, it is
the social policy prescriptions for national social policy being articulated by global actors …