Best Practices in Achieving Universal Health Coverage: A Scoping Review

Autor: Mahdi Nikoomanesh, Aziz Rezapour, Javad Sajjadi Khasraghi, Naser Derakhshani, Saber Azami-Aghdash, Jalil Koohpayehzadeh, Riaz Alaei Kalajahi, Samira Soleimanpour, Hamideh Sabetrohani
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Medical Journal of The Islamic Republic of Iran.
ISSN: 2251-6840
1016-1430
Popis: Background: Universal health coverage (UHC) is a very important and effective policy in the health system of countries worldwide. Using the experiences and learning from the best practices of successful countries in the UHC can be very helpful. Therefore, the aim of the present study is to provide a scoping review of successful global interventions and practices in achieving UHC.Methods: The present study is a scoping review study has conducted using the Arkesy and O'Malley framework. To gather information the databases of Embase, PubMed, The Cochrane Library, Scopus, SID and MagIran have searched using the keywords of Universal health coverage, Universal healthcare coverage, Universal health care coverage, Strength*, Transfer*, interventions, improve*, program*, innovations, initiative, Financing, "Service delivery", Stewardship, "Resource generation", from 2000 to 2019. Content-Analysis was also used to analyze the data.Results: Out of 4257 articles, 57 evidence finally included in the study. The results showed that of the 40 countries that had successful interventions, most were Asian. The interventions were financial protection (40 interventions that categorized to 14 items), service coverage (31 interventions that categorized to 7 items), population coverage (36 interventions that categorized to 9 items) and quality (18 interventions that categorized to 7 items) respectively. Also, the successful result were conducted financial protection (14 items), service coverage (7 items), population coverage (9 items) and quality (7 items)) respectively.Conclusion: This study provides a comprehensive and clear view of successful interventions in achieving to UHC. Therefore, with consideration to lessons learned from successful interventions, policymakers can be designing appropriate interventions to their country.
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