Background Universal health coverage (UHC) embedded within the United Nations
Sustainable Development Goals, is defined by the World Health Organization as all …

Background Ensuring access to essential quality health services and reducing financial
hardship for all individuals regardless of their ability to pay are the main goals of universal …

The emergence of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) on the global public health scene has
led to growing concerns and uncertainties. It has intensified my curiosity about the likely …

Introduction Low/middle-income countries (LMICs) in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) are
increasingly turning to public contributory health insurance as a mechanism for removing …

This article identifies and describes the reforms undertaken by the National Hospital
Insurance Fund (NHIF) and examines their implications for Kenya's quest to achieve …

The COVID-19 pandemic has made vivid the need for resilient, high-quality health systems
and presents an opportunity to reconsider how to build such systems. Although even well …

This paper provides an extensive review of the rapidly growing literature on the resource
curse phenomenon, whereby natural resources-rich countries experience lower levels of …

Africa has historically seen several periods of prolonged and extreme droughts across the
continent, causing food insecurity, exacerbating social inequity and frequent mortality. A …

Background The challenges of universal health coverage (UHC) in developing countries
with a significant proportion of the labor force that works in the informal sector include …

Abstract Background Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) contribute significantly to the
global disease burden, with low-and middle-income (LMICs) countries disproportionately …