Creating universal health care in Ireland: A legal context

Creating a supportive legal environment for universal health coverage

Editorials 482 In this edition of the Bulletin, Marks-Sultan et al. 1 propose that the World Health Organization (WHO) should provide capacity-building for drafting health laws in Member States. They highlight that WHO has the authority and credibility to work with countries to make their national laws easier to access, understand, monitor and evaluate. WHO's new technical support work related ...

Creating integrated health care

It was the ambition of this thesis to contribute to the growing interest in integrated care and to the ongoing research in this area by exploring the Swedish development of integrated health care. The general purpose was to study different strategies to improve integration in the Swedish health care system in order to identify some of the key issues and conditions in the creation of integrated ...

Health Care Reform: Creating a Sustainable Health Care Marketplace

Accessibility to Health Care in Rural Ireland

This paper examines the geographical variations in access to health care in rural Ireland using the static components of SMILE a spatial microsimulation model. The static spatial microsimulation components of SMILE are combined with accessibility measures in a GIS to provide an indication of health care accessibility in rural Ireland. Using accessibility parameters, and health care utilisation ...

Essential health care among Mexican indigenous people in a universal coverage context.

OBJECTIVE To analyze the influence of indigenous condition on essential health care among Mexican children, older people and women in reproductive age. METHODS The influence of indigenous condition on the probability of receiving medical care due to acute respiratory infection (ARI) and acute diarrheal disease (ADD), vaccination coverage; and antenatal care (ANC) was analyzed using the 2012 N...