In the last few years, groups in Peru, Brazil, Nicaragua and Haiti, have led the Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) region in working with open source health information technology solutions in extremely resource-limited settings to improve patient
Public health care in much of Africa is underfunded. There is a shortage of health care workers, and most doctors prefer to work in private practice.
Safeguarding the Health Sector in Times of Macroeconomic Instability presents the results of an international initiative to document the effects of how health systems in the developing world have responded to macroeconomic austerity and a
The workshop seeks to address three topics: How to increase resources in order to move towards Universal Health Coverage? How to address equity within the framework of the UHC? How to finance health at a domestic level?
There are a number of problems in the health systems of three countries reviewed (South Africa, Ghana, Tanzania), which are mainly due to fragmentation in their insurance schemes.