Background The health of migrants and refugees is a key component in achieving Universal Health Coverage (UHC). This paper aims to assess the scale of financing mobilized by the Moroccan government for migrants and refugees health, and addressing health issues related to these populations within...

A N I NSTITUTIONAL ECONOMIC ANALYSIS O F P UBLIC HEALTH CARE ORGANISATIONS I N L OW-INCOME COUNTRIES Bruno Meessen May 2009 ...

Background: As the human cost of the global economic crisis becomes apparent the ongoing discussions surrounding the post-2015 global development framework continue at a frenzied pace. Given the scale and scope of increased globalization moving forward in a post-Millennium Development Goals era,...

Public providers have no financial incentive to respect their legal obligation to exempt the poor from user fees. Health Equity Funds (HEFs) aim to make exemptions effective by giving NGOs responsibility for assessing eligibility and compensating providers for lost revenue. We use the geographic...

Recently, there has been broad consensus in the global health community on the need for health systems strengthening (HSS) to make further progress toward the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in Sub-Saharan Africa. However, there is still divergence on how HSS should be framed, what HSS...