Exploring Healthcare in Sweden, Denmark, and Norway
ACCESS Health International and the Dutch Task Force Health Care are partnering on a series of three new studies and fact finding missions that will explore healthcare systems in Sweden, Denmark, and Norway. The studies will provide an in depth look at how healthcare …
Where are the Market Facilitators? – Moving Public Private Partnerships from Idea to Implementation
As governments look toward meeting the Sustainable Development Goals, they are increasingly interested in working with social enterprises to fill gaps in service provision. At the same time, social enterprises are generating new business model innovations—from process innovations that lower the cost …
Madhya Pradesh Health Systems Assessment Report
In India, Madhya Pradesh was identified by the National Health Mission as a high focus state. Madhya Pradesh has some of the poorest maternal and child health indicators in India. The ACCESS Health International team studied the healthcare delivery systems in two …
Focusing on Primary Health to Achieve Universal Health Coverage in IndiaVrishali Shekhar
Financing of healthcare is one of the critical determinants of achieving better health outcomes. In India, a government agency, National Health Accounts, monitors the flow of resources in a country’s health system and provides detailed data on health finances has divided insurance …
Long Term Care Insurance in the United States
“Long term care insurance requires a long term financial commitment. Many people think that insurance companies take advantage of payers with regular increases in prices. In this interview, the president of Thau Incorporated, Claude Thau, explains how long term care insurance works …
Focusing on Primary Health to Achieve Universal Health Coverage in India
Healthcare financing is one of the critical determinants of achieving better health outcomes. In India, central and state funding collectively represents about twenty percent of total health spending. ACCESS Health conducted an exhaustive analysis and comparison of the benefit packages of government …
Has the Rajiv Aarogyasri Community Health Insurance Scheme of Andhra Pradesh Addressed the Educational Divide in Accessing Healthcare?
Equity of access to healthcare remains a major challenge. Families continue to face financial and non financial barriers to services. Lack of education has been shown to be a key risk factor for catastrophic health expenditure in many countries, including India. This …
Has the Rajiv Aarogyasri Community Health Insurance Scheme of Andhra Pradesh Addressed the Educational Divide in Accessing Healthcare?
Equity of access to healthcare remains a major challenge. Families continue to face financial and non financial barriers to services. Lack of education has been shown to be a key risk factor for catastrophic health expenditure in many countries, including India. This …
Improving Healthcare Through Medical Audits
ACCESS Health is one of the founders of the Joint Learning Network, an innovative knowledge network for low and middle income countries who are focused on expanding health coverage for all citizens. A group of network members recently formed a Medical Audits …
The Evolution of Health Insurance in India
Allopathic medicine in India dates back to the 1600s when medical officers arrived in India with the British East India Company ship surgeons. After the reigns of the Indian Subcontinent or Erstwhile India were taken over by the Company in 1757, the …
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