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CASE STUDIES
June 01, 2023
For the last three decades, Zambia has implemented a series of policies to gradually work towards Universal Health Coverage (UHC). This case study delves into the process followed by the government of Zambia in developing those policies, with the aim of supporting other countries embarking on the jo...
CASE STUDIES
November 18, 2021
Since 2018, the government of Kenya has worked on a series of policies and pilots to support the implementation of Universal Health Coverage (UHC) by 2022. UHC ensures that all individuals and communities receive the health services they need without suffering financial hardship. As part of this eff...
CASE STUDIES
November 18, 2021
Zambia has been steadily working towards achieving Universal Health Coverage (UHC) since the 1990s. Zambia's UHC ambition rests primarily on the delivery of two Health Benefits Packages (HBPs): the National Health Care Package (NHCP) and the National Health Insurance Management Authority (NHIMA) Ben...
Blog Post
July 01, 2021
Over the past year we partnered with researchers in Kenya, the Philippines, South Africa, and Uganda to document, from a whole-of-health perspective, what we know about the nature, scale, and scope of COVID-19’s disruptions to essential health services in those countries, and the health effects of s...
WORKING PAPERS
June 29, 2021
COVID-19 has caused significant morbidity and mortality, both directly and indirectly via the disruption to routine health services. Evidence on the indirect health impacts has largely been anecdotal or modeled, and cause/program-specific. We aimed to document the indirect health impacts in four cou...
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June 26, 2020
Since the beginning of the COVID-19 outbreak, many health-related policy decisions have relied on epidemiologic models with a near singular focus on COVID-19 cases and deaths. Collateral health effects of COVID-19 (for example disruptions of health supply chains or avoidance of care from patients) a...
Blog Post
June 16, 2020
Because of the uncertainties that complicate modelling, there is value in different research groups working independently to build models. Different models will employ different methods, data, and assumptions and will seek to answer different policy questions. Here we take a look from an end-user’s ...