Universal Health Coverage: A burning need for developing countries
Journal Title: Journal of Medical Research and Innovation - Year 2017, Vol 1, Issue 1
Abstract
The term of universal health coverage (UHC) are getting popularity among the countries who have not yet attained it. Majority of the developing countries are planning to implement the UHC to protect the vulnerable citizen who cannot afford to buy the health services. Poor people living in developing countries, where there is no UHC, are bereft of getting equal health care. They have to bear a significant amount of health cost in buying different services which often causes catastrophic expenditures for an individual and a family. If a country can provide UHC, it will be possible to bring all the citizens under provision of equal and quality care. However, implementation of a UHC is not an easy phenomenon, rather it needs proper design of a good health insurance system by integrating both the public and private health care providers. The influence of good governance and a sustainable health financing system is fundamental to establish UHC in the developing countries.
Authors and Affiliations
Sojib Bin Zaman, Naznin Hossain
Keywords
Related Articles
- EP ID EP240915
- DOI 10.15419/jmri.41
- Views 32
- Downloads 0
Non-Spinal Causes of Back Pain: An ‘undiagnosed’ diagnosis
Low back pain is a common ailment affecting individuals all around the globe. Majority of Disability Adjusted Life Years lost amongst working population is due to low back pain. Though majority of surgeons/physicians kee...
Should Research be Made Compulsory in Medical School?
Healthcare decision-making is mostly reliant on evidence–based medicine. Building and upgrading skills in scientific reasoning and thinking amongst medical students has now became an important part of medical education....
Universal Health Coverage: A burning need for developing countries
The term of universal health coverage (UHC) are getting popularity among the countries who have not yet attained it. Majority of the developing countries are planning to implement the UHC to protect the vulnerable citize...
Developing A Scale for Measuring Perfection Quotient (PQ) to Predict Readiness to Health Behavior Change
The concept of perfection quotient (PQ) that imbibes the basics of intelligence quotient (IQ), emotional quotient (EQ), X quotient (XQ) and spiritual dimension has been proposed to measure readiness for individual-level...
Transcatheter aortic valve replacement in Bicuspid Aortic Valve Disease: An Insight
As per the current scenario, role of Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVI) is controversial in bicuspid aortic valve stenosis. All the randomized clinical trials comparing outcomes of TAVI with surgery till date,...