Title Addressing inequity to achieve the maternal and child health millennium development goals: looking beyond averages Year 2013 Author G. Ruhago, F. Ngalesoni and O. Norheim DOI   URL http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2458/12/1119 Journal BMC Public Health Document Type Journal Article Document Availability Full Text Classification Equity, other UHC complimentary initiatives  

Title Achieving universal health coverage in Ghana: why a premium-based health insurance model is not a better solution Year 2014 Author G. U. A. t. H. Campaign DOI   URL http://www.modernghana.com/news/429196/1/achieving-universal-health-coverage-in-ghana-why-a.html Journal   Document Type Web Page Document Availability Full Text Classification Health Insurance You are unauthorized to view this page. Thank you for visiting the AfHEA website. The page you’re looking for is only accessible to AfHEA members. AfHEA membership is open to all Africans and non Africans (including…

Title Achieving the promise of universal coverage – the role for strategic purchasing Year 2014 Author K. Hanson DOI 10.1186/1472-6963-14-S2-O14 URL http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6963/14/S2/O14/ Journal BMC Health Services Research Document Type Journal Article Document Availability Full Text Classification Other UHC complimentary initiatives  

Title Achieving sustainable universal health coverage in low- and middle-income countries Year 2013 Author D. McIntyre and F. Meheus DOI 10.1017/s1744133113000303 URL http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S1744133113000303 Journal Health Econ Policy Law Document Type Journal Article Document Availability Abstract Classification Access, Equity  

Atelier de recherche d’articles scientifiques en santé sur Medline et sur d’autres bases documentaires Escuela Andaluza de Salud Pública de Grenade (Espagne) le 5 septembre 2014  Dans nos activités, il est souvent nécessaire de connaître l’état actuel des connaissances sur un sujet ou de se documenter pour décider. Objectifs de l’atelier 1)      Apprendre à réaliser des requêtes bibliographiques sur PubMed (Medline). La base Medline (USA) est la plus importante base d’articles sur les sciences de la vie (23 millions d’articles). Elle donne accès…

The Health Intervention and Technology Assessment Program (HITAP) is carrying out a survey to understand the role of health technology assessment (HTA) to inform coverage decisions in low- and middle-income countries. Whereas the survey received good responses from the Asian region, the Gates Foundation is equally interested in the perspectives of African and Latin American countries. It is for this reason that, as an AfHEA member, you are kindly requested to fill in the survey in the link below. The…

      Key Facts Type: Anglophone training course on Universal Health Coverage Course Content: Fundamentals of UHC, Implementation of UHC, M&E                         Location: Nairobi Kenya, August 18-29 2014 Fees: $150 The course seeks to build and improve the capacity of health policy and financing professionals and researchers in key areas related to universal health coverage in order to enable them to support their countries’ UHC programs more effectively. This is part…

The AfHEA secretariat is pleased to announce the successful completion of the Third African Health Economics and Policy Association conference in Nairobi.

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{lang en}The AfHEA training on Universal Health Coverage is a core Programme of the Association’s Business plan. It targets Ministries of Health and related Government agencies, local research bodies or other related national or regional organizations that need skills in the training on UHC but do not currently have sucient capacities to undertake in-house technical analysis in this area or have such capacities available locally to them. The content of the trainings is based on priorities dened by targeted actors and reported after a wide survey in 19 African countries and 3 regional institutions . It comprises: