Access to Essential Medicines at Primary Level Facilities: China Case Study

The Lancet Series on Universal Health Coverage (UHC) in Latin America charts the complex political, economic, and social forces that shape health policy making. In the past few decades, important policies and strategic initiatives in health and development have been embraced by Latin America, with the active participation and support of the Pan American Health Organization, the World Health Organization, and other partners, making Latin America a laboratory to study the mechanics of implementing UHC.…

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,…

This article reflects on major health challenges and recent trends in health, wealth, and health care in post-apartheid South Africa. Much of the hope for narrowing disparities in the new South Africa was embedded in the reversal of legislated racial discrimination generally, and in aspirations for more equitable provision of health care specifically. However, this places too much emphasis on legislation and biomedicine as the dominant routes to improved health, without consideration of the social…