Universal health coverage: A quest for all countries but under threat in some

Value in Health

Volumn 16, Issue 1 SUPPL., 2013, Pages

  McKee, Martin ^a   Balabanova, Dina ^b   Basu, Sanjay ^c   Ricciardi, Walter ^d   Stuckler, David ^e  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

global health; health systems; universal coverage

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ECONOMICS; EMPIRICISM; EUROPE; FEAR; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; LAW; POLITICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; EUROPE; HUMANS; POLITICS; UNITED STATES; UNIVERSAL COVERAGE; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 84872346375     PISSN: 10983015     EISSN: 15244733     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jval.2012.10.001     Document Type: Article

References (52)

1. D. Stuckler, A.B. Feigl, S. Basu, and M. McKee The Political Economy of Universal Health Coverage 2010 World Health Organization Geneva
2. R. Koch Über den augenblicklichen Stand der bakteriologischen Choleradiagnose Zeitschrift für Hygiene und Infectionskrankheiten 14 1893 319 333
3. E. Nolte, and M. McKee Does Health Care Save Lives? Avoidable Mortality Revisited 2004 Nuffield Trust London
4. E.M. Andreev, E. Nolte, and V.M. Shkolnikov The evolving pattern of avoidable mortality in Russia Int J Epidemiol 32 2003 437 446
5. A. Lo Scalzo, A. Donatini, and L. Orzella Italy: health system review Health Syst Transit 11 2009 1 216
6. B. Abel-Smith The Beveridge Report: its origins and outcomes Int Soc Sec Rev 45 1992 5 16
7. H. Kwon The Welfare State in Korea: The Politics of Legitimation 1995 University of Oxford Oxford
8. Y.C. Lee, Y.T. Huang, and Y.W. Tsai The impact of universal National Health Insurance on population health: the experience of Taiwan BMC Health Serv Res 10 2010 225
9. W. De Ceukelaire, and P. De Vos Social movements are key towards universal health coverage Lancet 374 2009 1888
10. G. Esping-Andersen The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism 1990 Princeton University Press Princeton, New Jersey
11. V. Navarro Why some countries have national health insurance, others have national health services, and the US has neither Soc Sci Med 28 1989 887 898
12. M. McKee, and D. Stuckler The assault on universalism: how to destroy the welfare state BMJ 343 2011 d7973
13. A. Wagner Three extracts on public finance R.A. Musgrave, A.T. Peacock, Classics in the Theory of Public Finance 1958 Macmillan London
14. R. Higgs Crisis and Leviathan: Critical Episodes in the Growth of American Government 1987 Oxford University Press New York
15. M. Abramovitz Catching up, forging ahead and falling behind J Econ History 46 1986 385 406
16. A. Alesina, and E.L. Glaeser Fighting Poverty in the US and Europe: A World of Difference 2004 Oxford University Press Oxford
17. T. Powell-Jackson, S. Basu, and D. Balabanova Democracy and growth in divided societies: a health-inequality trap? Soc Sci Med 73 2011 33 41
18. J. Fenby The General: Charles De Gaulle and the France He Saved 2010 Simon & Schuster London
19. Reich MR. The political economy of health transitions in the third world. In: Chen LC, Kleinman A (eds). Health and Social Change in International Perspective. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1994:413-51.
20. D. Balabanova, M. McKee, and A. Mills 25 Years On - Good Health at Low Cost 2011 Open University Press London
21. World Health Organization Statistical Information System (WHOSIS) 2009 World Health Organization Geneva
22. Global Campaign on Social Security Coverage for All. Social Health Protection 2007 International labor Organization Geneva
23. R. Geneau, D. Stuckler, and S. Ebrahim Raising the priority of preventing chronic disease: a political process Lancet 6735 2010 7 16
24. World Bank. Investing in Health 1993 World Bank Washington, D.C.
25. A. Katz The Sachs Report: investing in health for economic development - or increasing the size of crumbs from the rich man's table, part I Inter J Health Serv 34 2004 751 773
26. M. Suhrcke, M. McKee, and R. Sauto Arce The Contribution of Health to the Economy in the European Union 2005 European Commission Brussels
27. Suhrcke M, Sauto-Arce R, McKee M, Rocco L. The Economist Costs of Ill Health in the European Region. Talinn: WHO and European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, 2008.
28. N. Klein The Shock Doctrine: Harmandsworth 2008 Penguin
29. Declaration of Alma-Ata, ed. Report of the International Conference on Primary Health Care. In: the International Conference on Primary Health Care, Alma Ata, 1978.
30. M. Cueto The origins of primary health care and selective primary health care Am J Pub Health 94 2004 1864 1874
31. J. Walsh, and K.S. Warren Selective primary health care: an interim strategy for disease control in developing countries Soc Sci Med 14C 1980 145 163
32. Williamson J. What Washington means by policy reform. In: Williamson J, ed., Latin American Adjustment: How Much has Happened? Washington DC: Institute for International Economics, 1990.
33. G. Ooms, D. Stuckler, S. Basu, and M. McKee Financing the Millennium Development Goals for health and beyond: sustaining the 'Big Push' Global Health 6 2010 1 8
34. United Nations. Assessing Progress in Africa Towards the Millennium Development Goals (Report 2008 E/ECA/COE/27/10 AU/CAMEF/EXP/10(III)). Addis Abba: United Nations Economic and Social Council Economic Commission for Africa, 2008.
35. W Easterly The white man's burden Lancet 367 2006 2060
36. United Nations The Millennium Development Goals Report 2009 United Nations New York
37. D. Stuckler, S. Basu, and M. McKee Drivers of inequality in Millennium Development Goal progress PLoS Med 7 2010 e1000241
38. D. Stuckler, S. Basu, and M. McKee International Monetary Fund and aid displacement Int J Health Services 41 2011 67 76
39. D. Stuckler, S. Basu, and M. McKee Healthcare capacity and allocations among South Africa: infrastructure-inequality traps after the end of apartheid Am J Pub Health 101 2011 165 172
40. World Health Organization World Health Report 2008: Primary Health Care (Now More Than Ever) 2008 World Health Organization Geneva
41. A. Kalk, N. Groos, J.C. Karasi, and E. Girrbach Health systems strengthening through insurance subsidies: GFATM experience in Rwanda Trop Med Int Health 15 2010 94 97
42. McNeil D. A poor nation, with a health plan: in desperately poor Rwanda, most have health insurance. New York Times. 2010. Available from: www.nytimes.com/2010/06/15/health/policy/15rwanda.html. [Accessed October 4, 2012].
43. B. Bernanke Sandridge Lecture, Virginia Association of Economics, 2005 2005 Federal Reserve Board Richmond, Virginia
44. R. Wade From global imbalances to global reorganisations Cambridge J Econ 33 2009 539 562
45. D. Blumenthal, and W. Hsiao Privatization and its discontents - the evolving Chinese health care system N Engl J Med 353 2005 1165 1170
46. D. Balabanova, B. Roberts, and E. Richardson Health care reform in the former Soviet Union: beyond the transition Health Serv Res 47 2011 840 864
47. P. Pierson Coping with Permanent Austerity: Welfare State Restructuring in Affluent Democracies 2001 Oxford University Press Oxford
48. D. Stuckler, S. Basu, M. McKee, and M. Suhrcke Responding to the economic crisis: a primer for public health professionals J Pub Health Policy 32 2010 298 306
49. A. Maioni Parting at the Crossroads: The Emergence of Health Insurance in the United States and Canada 1998 Princeton University Press Princeton, NJ
50. E. Nolte, and M. McKee Measuring the health of nations: updating an earlier analysis Health Affairs 27 2008 58 71
51. S.M. Lipset American Exceptionalism: A Double-Edged Sword 1996 Norton New York
52. D. Adams The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy 1979 Pan Books London