“Health donors, policymakers, and practitioners continuously make life-and-death decisions about which type of patients receive what interventions, when, and at what cost. These decisions—as consequential as they are— often result from ad hoc, nontransparent processes driven more by inertia and inte

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(Reuters) – Pharmaceutical companies selling drugs in parts of the San Francisco Bay area would be required to submit plans for incinerating or safely disposing of unused medication under a plan advanced by county officials this week.The measure, billed by supporters as the first of its kind in the

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Abstract India’s rapid economic growth has been accompanied by slower improvements in population health. Given the need to reconcile the ambitious goal of achieving Universal Coverage with limited resources, a robust priority-setting mechanism is required to ensure that the right trade-offs arema

Health financing is a component of the health system, crucial in achieving universal health coverage (UHC). Careful design of its three main functions, resource mobilisation, pooling and allocation, ensures improved access to essential health services and financial risk protection for

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