Implementing Universal Health Coverage: Experiences in Thailand, Ghana, Rwanda, Vietnam
2015
This concept note explores some basic principles underlying universal health care and their application in Thailand, Ghana, Rwanda, and Vietnam. Subjects covered include policy design and implementation, political leadership, financing, health insurance, health equity, monitoring and evaluation, universal health coverage, and quality of care.
This concept note is part of the Global Health Delivery Online Case Collection, which is a growing set of Harvard Business School-style teaching case studies, each with an accompanying teaching note, designed to educate current and future managers on how programs, governments, and enterprises determine their strategies and design systems to meet the needs of patients and populations. This concept note supports other cases in the collection such as “Sin Taxes” and Health Financing in the Philippines and Political Leadership in South Africa: National Health Insurance.
Implementing Universal Health Coverage: Experiences in Thailand, Ghana, Rwanda, Vietnam
Source:
Rosenberg J et al. Implementing Universal Health Coverage: The Experiences in Thailand, Ghana, Rwanda, and Vietnam. Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women’s Hospital 2015. http://www.globalhealthdelivery.org/case-collection/concept-notes/implementing-universal-health-coverage-experience-thailand-ghana.