Monitoring Progress towards Universal Health Coverage at Country and Global Levels

Abstract

As part of the Collection on Monitoring Universal Health Coverage, Ties Boerma and colleagues discuss the key findings from the country case studies and technical reviews included in the Collection and, also, how these papers will help with the development of a global framework for monitoring progress towards Universal Health Coverage. Please see later in the article for the Editors' Summary

Outcomes of a comprehensive, large-scale child growth and health promotion program implemented at a national level and in the long term

“…0 % b e t w e e n 1 9 7 4 a n d 2 0 0 7 f o l l o w i n g the universalization of health care coverage through the Bolsa Família program and other interventions. 3 Similarly, the Oportunidades program reduced stunting in Mexico from 27% to 16% between 1988 and 2006, 4 and included universal health access and cash transfers. There were other programs with varied results in different countries.…”

Catastrophic Effects of Out-of-Pocket Payments for Health Care Using Synthetic Panel Data

“…The capacity to monitor and track meaningful change in out-of-pocket health spending and catastrophic payments received special attention since the advent of Universal Health Coverage (UHC) (Boerma et al, 2014). Several methods have been developed to monitor the country level progress towards achievement of UHC, impact of various policies and status of catastrophic health expenditure at national level.…”

Implementation of the Referral System Policy in the National Health Insurance Scheme at Community Health Centers, Ngawi District, East Java

“…In addition, the intervention model of healthcare service whether it is promotive, preventive, curative, rehabilitative are not yet optimally unconducted (Boerma, 2014). A study by Ali et al (2014) in Siko and Kalumata Community Health Center stated that the implementation of referral system is not yet well performed because of poor understanding of the officers, consumable medicines and materials are late to be delivered, the availability of facilities and medical instruments that does not meet the needs of the patients makes patients are referred easily since they do not obtain the appropriate service.…”