Rethinking assumptions about delivery of healthcare: implications for universal health coverage

Jishnu Das; Liana Woskie; Ruma Rajbhandari; Kamran Abbasi; Ashish Jha

doi:10.1136/bmj.k1716

Rethinking assumptions about delivery of healthcare: implications for universal health coverage

BMJ. 2018 May 21:361:k1716. doi: 10.1136/bmj.k1716.

Authors

Jishnu Das¹, Liana Woskie², Ruma Rajbhandari³, Kamran Abbasi⁴, Ashish Jha⁵

Affiliations

¹ World Bank, Washington, DC, USA.
² Harvard Initiative on Global Health Quality, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.
³ Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
⁴ The BMJ, London, UK.
⁵ Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard T H Chan School of Public Health, Harvard Global Health Institute, Boston ajha@hsph.harvard.edu.

Abstract

Simply providing more resources for universal coverage is not enough to improve health, argue Jishnu Das and colleagues. We also need to ensure good quality of care

MeSH terms

Attitude of Health Personnel
Delivery of Health Care* / organization & administration
Delivery of Health Care* / standards
Education, Medical / standards
Global Health
Health Care Reform*
Health Personnel / education
Health Personnel / standards
Health Services Accessibility
Humans
National Health Programs / organization & administration*
National Health Programs / standards
Universal Health Insurance* / organization & administration