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Community engagement to manage acute malnutrition: implementation research in Kupang district, Indonesia
(2019-09)
Objective:
To improve the low coverage and performance of a programme on community-based management of acute malnutrition, implemented between October 2015 and April 2018 in Kupang district in rural Indonesia.
Methods:
To investigate why the coverage and performance were low in the first year of the programme, we conducted a semiquantitative evaluation between August and September 2016. We used the results from the evaluation to inform programme improvement, by developing and modifying community mobilization strategies. We employed a m...
Political economy of Thailand's tax-financed universal coverage scheme
(2019-08-13)
Problem:
The challenge of implementing contributory health insurance among populations in the informal sector was a barrier to achieving universal health coverage (UHC) in Thailand.
Approach:
UHC was a political manifesto of the 2001 election campaign. A contributory system was not a feasible option to honour the political commitment. Given Thailand’s fiscal capacity and the moderate amount of additional resources required, the government legislated to use general taxation as the sole source of financing for the universal coverage sche...
The Political Economy of UHC Reform in Thailand: Lessons for Low- and Middle-Income Countries
(2019-08-13)
Thailand achieved full population coverage of financial protection for health care in 2002 with successful implementation of the Universal Coverage Scheme (UCS). The three public health insurance schemes covered 98.5% of the population by 2015. Current evidence shows a high level of service coverage and financial risk protection and low level of unmet healthcare need, but the path toward UHC was not straightforward. Applying the Political Economy of UHC Reform Framework and the concept of path dependency, this study reviews how these factors in...
Achieving the targets for universal health coverage: how is Thailand monitoring progress?
(2019-04)
Universal health coverage (UHC) is one of the targets within the Sustainable Development Goalsthat the Member States of the United Nations have pledged to achieve by 2030. Target 3.8 has twomonitoring indicators: 3.8.1 for coverage of essential health services, for which a compound index from16 tracer indicators has recently been developed; and 3.8.2 for catastrophic expenditure on health.The global baseline monitoring of these two indicators in 2017 shows that the progress in many lowandmiddle-income countries is unlikely to be on track and ...
Prevalence and socio-demographic determinants of depression among inmates of a prison in Malaysia
(2019-07-30)
Depression is the most common form of mental disorder among prison inmates. The objective of this study is to determine the prevalence and socio-demographic determinants of depression among adult male inmates in a local prison in Malaysia. This cross-sectional study was conducted among 460 inmates who were systematically selected. Depression was screened using the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression (CES-D) scale. Chi-square tests and multiple logistic regression were applied to determine the association between depression and associate...