Lancet Study: Access Without Quality of Care Improvements
Mortality due to low-quality health systems in the universal health coverage era: a systematic analysis of amenable deaths in 137 countries. Excerpt: “Our analysis shows that at all levels of development and across different scopes of insured services, poor quality of care will limit the mortality reduction possible from greater coverage. Countries pursing UHC must put better quality on par with expanded coverage if they are to substantially improve health.”
Navigating the Recent NHI Controversy
Recently, a controversy occurred when several newspapers reported that there was division within the government regarding the National Health Insurance. The newspapers based their reporting, here, and here, on a letter apparently written by a Treasury official. In response, a statement was released and very shortly after this, newspapers published follow up articles, here and […]