Impact of Health Facility-Based Insecticide Treated Bednet Distribution in Malawi: Progress and Challenges towards Achieving Universal Coverage

Impact of Health Facility-Based Insecticide Treated Bednet Distribution in Malawi: Progress and Challenges towards Achieving Universal Coverage

BACKGROUND High levels of insecticide treated bednet (ITN) use reduce malaria burden in countries with intense transmission such as Malawi. Since 2007 Malawi has implemented free health facility-based ITN distribution for pregnant women and children <5 years old (under-5s). We evaluated the progress of this targeted approach toward achieving universal ITN coverage. METHODS We conducted a cros...

Effective Coverage as a New Metric for Monitoring Progress towards Universal Health Coverage

Achieving universal health coverage

Perspectives There is global consensus on the goals of universal health coverage (UHC), which has been defined as " all people receiving quality health services that meet their needs without exposing them to financial hardship in paying for them. " 1 Yet despite this consensus, it remains unclear how the global health community can achieve universal coverage. The obvious answer is to ensure tha...

Monitoring and Evaluating Progress towards Universal Health Coverage in Brazil

1 Instituto de Saúde Coletiva, Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Brazil, 2 National Institute in Science, Technology and Innovation in Health (CITECS), Salvador, Brazil, 3 Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada, Brası́lia, Brazil, 4 Federal University of Santa Catarina, Floranopólis, Brazil, 5 Secretaria de Vigilância a Saúde, Ministry of Health, Brası́lia, Brazil, 6 Instituto de Comunicaç...

Monitoring and Evaluating Progress towards Universal Health Coverage in Singapore

1 Policy Research and Economics Office, Ministry of Health, Singapore, 2 Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore, Singapore, 3 Health Services & Outcomes Research, National Healthcare Group, Singapore, 4 Health Services & Systems Research, Duke-National University of Singapore, Singapore, 5 Centre for Biomedical Ethics, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National U...