Accelerating learning for pro-poor health markets

Accelerating learning for pro-poor health markets

BACKGROUND Given the rapid evolution of health markets, learning is key to promoting the identification and uptake of health market policies and practices that better serve the needs of the poor. However there are significant challenges to learning about health markets. We discuss the different forms that learning takes, from the development of codified scientific knowledge, through to experien...

Accelerating Pro-Poor Growth through Support for Private Sector Development Accelerating Pro-Poor Growth through Support for Private Sector Development An Analytical Framework

Commentary: Implementing Pro-Poor Universal Health Coverage

Recently published extraordinary article entitled: " implementing pro-poor universal health coverage " depicts an issue of truly global outreach (1). Modern day health system establishments had their historical roots back in the early industrial era of late nineteenth century Europe (2). Risk sharing through introducing the first health insurance funds was initially targeted to protect industri...

Implementing pro-poor universal health coverage.

Universal health coverage (UHC)—the availability of quality, aff ordable health services for all when needed without fi nancial impoverishment—can be a vehicle for improving equity, health outcomes, and fi nancial wellbeing. It can also contribute to economic development. In its Global Health 2035 report, the Lancet Commission on Investing in Health (CIH) set forth an ambitious investment frame...

Strategies for Pro-Poor Growth: Pro-Poor, Pro-Growth or Both