Human Resources for Health Reforms: Ethiopia Case Study

This article examines Turkey's health system reform since 2003, and its efforts to overcome health inequities and protect citizens against financial risk. Turkey's experience shows that with committed leadership, middle-income countries can achieve universal health coverage and simultaneously improve population health, financial risk protection, and user satisfaction–health system goals to which all countries should aspire.

This article describes the development, adaptation, and rapid scaling up of Brazil’s community-based primary health care. Brazil has made rapid progress toward universal coverage of its population through its national health system, the Sistema Único de Saúde (SUS). Since its emergence from dictatorship in 1985, Brazil—which has the world's fifth-largest population and seventh-largest economy—has invested substantially in expanding access to health care for all citizens, a goal that is implicit in the Brazilian constitution and…

This case study describes El Salvador’s medicine law, introduced in 2012, which created an independent national regulatory agency to modernize and improve inefficient practices in the country’s drug and medical product market. The implementation of this law, which served to regulate prices, access, quality, procurement, prescription, and use of essential medicines, resulted in substantial price reductions and cost savings. This case is part of the World Health Organization’s collection of health financing policy resources, which…