Moving towards universal health coverage: Engaging non-state providers

Zubin Cyrus Shroff; Krishna Dipankar Rao; Sara Bennett; Ligia Paina; Marie Gloriose Ingabire; Abdul Ghaffar

doi:10.1186/s12939-018-0844-7

Moving towards universal health coverage: Engaging non-state providers

Zubin Cyrus Shroff, Krishna Dipankar Rao, Sara Bennett, Ligia Paina, Marie Gloriose Ingabire, Abdul Ghaffar

Bloomberg School of Public Health

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This editorial provides an overview of the special issue "Moving towards UHC: engaging non-state providers". It begins by describing the rationale underlying the Alliance's choice of a research program addressing issues of non-state providers and briefly discusses the research process this entailed. This is followed by a summary of the findings and key messages of each of the eight articles included in the issue. The editorial concludes with a series of reflections regarding lessons learnt about the engagement of non-state providers, methodological challenges, areas for future research as well as the contribution of the research program towards efforts to build capacity and strengthen health systems towards universal health coverage.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	135
Journal	International journal for equity in health
Volume	17
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1186/s12939-018-0844-7
State	Published - Oct 5 2018

Keywords

Contracting
Low-and-middle-income countries
Non-state providers
Universal health coverage

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Health Policy
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

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