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Mashup Score: 1California takes step to universal healthcare coverage - 7 month(s) ago
California Gov. Gavin Newsom has approved legislation to outline requirements for a federal wage application focused on universal healthcare coverage for all st
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Mashup Score: 1New California law takes a step toward single-payer healthcare - 7 month(s) ago
Californians have been asking for single-payer healthcare for years. Newsom signed a bill to jump-start the process.
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Mashup Score: 5Surgery's place in the UHC2030 Action Agenda - 7 month(s) ago
On Sept 21, 2023, the UN General Assembly’s 78th Session (UNGA-78) will dedicate one of three high-level meetings to universal health coverage (UHC).1 With UHC2030 target deadlines fast approaching, amplified efforts and political commitments from the global health community will focus on the right to essential health-care services without impoverishment.1,2 Safe, timely, and affordable surgical care is an indivisible component of UHC, and achieving UHC underlies the surgical community’s core priorities.
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Mashup Score: 0Impacts of performance-based financing on health system performance: evidence from the Democratic Republic of Congo - BMC Medicine - 7 month(s) ago
Background Health systems’ weakness remains one of the primary obstacles towards achieving universal access to quality healthcare in low-income settings. Performance-based financing (PBF) programs have been increasingly used to increase access to quality care in LMICs. However, evidence on the impacts of these programs remains fragmented and inconclusive. We analyze the health system impacts of the PBF program in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), one of the largest such programs introduced in LMICs to date. Methods We used a health systems perspective to analyze the benefits of PBF relative to unconditional financing of health facilities. Fifty-eight health zones in six provinces were randomly assigned to either a control group (28 zones) in which facilities received unconditional transfers or to a PBF program (30 zones) that started at the end of 2016. Follow-up data collection took place in 2021–2022 and included health facility assessments, health worker interviews, direct
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Mashup Score: 4
Read the current issue of The Lancet Public Health, a monthly open access journal contributing to advancing public health practice and policy making worldwide
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Mashup Score: 1Tanzania to launch inclusive CHWs programme - Daily News - 9 month(s) ago
SWITZERLAND, Geneva TANZANIA is intending to launch an inclusive programme of using Community Health Workers (CHWs) with the aim of speeding up access to better health services for all especially at primary health facilities. This was revealed recently by Minister for Health Ms Ummy Mwalimu in Geneva, Switzerland while taking part in a virtual meeting
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Mashup Score: 3
It’s not exactly what he’s best known for, but Alexander Hamilton helped develop the first national, compulsory health insurance policy in the world: a 1798 taxpayer-financed plan Congress approved to cover sick and disabled seamen.
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Mashup Score: 0
In 1798, the U.S. enacted the world’s very first national, compulsory health insurance law.
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Mashup Score: 1Federal Govt Plans Health Insurance For 50m Nigerians – VP Shettima - 10 month(s) ago
Vice President Kashim Shettima disclosed this on Monday at the 40th Anniversary of the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital (UMTH) in Borno State.
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Mashup Score: 0Kenya: Ruto proposes insurance reforms for universal health coverage; evokes mixed responses - 10 month(s) ago
The proposal will replace the current contribution system with a flat rate of 2.75 per cent of contributors’ gross salary
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Will California win the race to publicly financed #UHC in the USA. Go @GavinNewsom ! https://t.co/eL3nOfkVCJ