Introduction The Government of Ethiopia (GoE) has made significant progress in expanding
access to primary health care (PHC) over the past 15 years. However, achieving national …

Objectives To examine the capacity and quality of maternal and child health (MCH) services
at the subnational primary healthcare (PHC) level in 12 low-income and middle-income …

Introduction The availability of quality primary health care (PHC) services in Nigeria is
limited. The PHC system faces significant challenges and the improvement and expansion …

Background Food insecurity and environmental degradation pose significant threats to
health outcomes in South Asia, necessitating effective policy interventions. Therefore, this …

Primary health care (PHC) systems are compromised by under-resourcing and inadequate
governance, and fail to provide high-quality health care services in most low-and middle …

There is now a considerable volume of literature that points to the primacy of primary health
care in dealing with pandemics and epidemics. The paper discusses the centrality of primary …

Objective To determine the impact of smoking on disease-specific health care utilization and
medical costs in patients with chronic non-communicable diseases (NCDs). Methods …

Despite the importance of expenditure data on primary health care (PHC), both within
countries and worldwide, until recently no standardized approach to measuring PHC …

If autocratization, like autocracy, helps political insiders at the expense of political outsiders,
it should lead to lower primary health care spending as a share of GDP, less widespread …

Ethiopia can advance towards developing a national health insurance to mitigate the high
disease burden in the country and the catastrophic financial burden of seeking healthcare …