The Week in Headlines
UHC Forward's weekly roundup of headlines from around the globe
Governments around the world are engaging in serious political and technical discussions on how to expand health coverage. Still others are considering such reforms, but are struggling to navigate the legal, financial, and political frameworks of their countries to determine the best path towards reform.
Below is a list of UHC-related headlines from around the world:
General News
Jeanette Vega: putting equity and resilience into global health: With its centenary next year, the Rockefeller Foundation's mission remains unchanged: promoting the well-being of humanity worldwide. But the landscape a century on is very different, according to Jeanette Vega, who became the Foundation's Managing Director earlier this year and leads the agency's global health programs. (The Lancet)
Country News
India
Universal health coverage in India: muddling through the quagmire: Author Prashanth NS discusses India's Planning Commission and the Universal Health Coverage report issued by the High-level Expert Group on UHC in October 2011. (IHP)
Universal health insurance in India: Ensuring equity, efficiency, and quality: This article applies economic theories to various possibilities for providing risk pooling mechanism with the objective of ensuring equity, efficiency, and quality care. (Indian Journal of Community Medicine)
Nigeria
Ogun adopts risk-pooling as health care strategy: As one of the five cardinal points of the state Governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun's, administration the state has introduced a Community-Based Health Insurance Scheme. The scheme enables what is called risk-pooling which is a situation in which everyone (or most people) in a group pay a small and regular amount into a 'pool' of money while the money is used to pay the healthcare costs of the few who fall sick. (AllAfrica.com)
Compulsory health insurance, key to improved health care: With growing calls for the government to reduce the burden of health care services on the citizens, the Federal Government in Abuja said the quest for better and improved healthcare for Nigerians will not be feasible if the law governing the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) Act is not amended to make health insurance compulsory. (AllAfrica.com)
Taiwan
Health care abroad: Taiwan: William Hsiao is a professor of economics at the Harvard School of Public Health and co-author of the 2004 book “Getting Health Reform Right.” He served as a health care adviser to the Taiwan government in the 1990s, when officials decided to reform that country’s health care system and to introduce universal coverage. He spoke with Anne Underwood, a freelance writer for the New York Times. (The New York Times)
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