Despite 15 years of investment in the Afghan health care sector by the international community, vulnerable groups—including persons with disabilities—cite a growing rate of insufficient access to quality health care, ...
Jul 14, 2017
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The United States spends up to four times more on health care than most wealthy nations, but it doesn't have much to show for it.
Jan 31, 2023
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This Sept. 23, the United Nations General Assembly invites world leaders and delegates to converge for a meeting about universal health coverage (UHC) that's expected to result in a political declaration.
Sep 18, 2019
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Indonesia has made advances in health since 1990, increasing life expectancy by eight years and decreasing rates of health burden from communicable diseases like diarrheal disease and tuberculosis. But the country is facing ...
Jun 28, 2018
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As the NHS lurches from crisis to crisis, the UK's approach to health needs radical rethinking to create a healthy and health-creating society. Just as the founding of the NHS in 1948 was a great national movement creating ...
Oct 8, 2016
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Countries with greater progress toward universal health coverage (UHC) had smaller declines in childhood vaccination coverage during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new study publishing August 16 in the open-access ...
Aug 16, 2022
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An international study of global progress in reaching World Health Organization (WHO) goals in the provision of universal healthcare coverage has found that many countries, including Australia, may be inflating their success ...
May 20, 2022
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Africa recorded a ten-year growth in its healthy life expectancy from 2000 to 2019, the World Health Organization Africa office said Thursday, exceeding the global average and progress seen in any other region over the same ...
Aug 4, 2022
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Two years ago, we examined where Canada stood compared to similar countries on COVID-19 rates. This was part of a larger study that looked at COVID-19 infections based on a country's welfare regime: liberal, social democratic ...
Dec 22, 2022
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Cuba on Tuesday became the first country in the world to eliminate mother-to-child transmission of HIV and syphilis, the World Health Organization said.
Jun 30, 2015
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