Objective To contextualise the degree of harm that comes from unsafe medical care
compared with individual health conditions using the global burden of disease (GBD), a …

Abstract While World Health Organization member countries embraced the concept of
universal coverage as early as 2005, few low-income countries have yet achieved the …

This article reports on the quality of care delivered by private and public providers of primary
health care services in rural and urban India. To measure quality, the study used …

In low and middle income countries, health workers are essential for the delivery of health
interventions. However, inadequate health-worker performance is a very widespread …

Most health system strengthening interventions ignore interconnections between systems
components. In particular, complex relationships between medicines and health financing …

Informal health care providers (IPs) comprise a significant component of health systems in
develo** nations. Yet little is known about the most basic characteristics of performance …

Background In develo** countries, the private sector provides a substantial proportion of
primary health care to low income groups for communicable and non-communicable …

Prevention is a core value of any health system. Nonetheless, many health problems will
continue to occur despite preventive services. A significant burden of diseases in develo** …

In the past 150 years, roughly half of the countries in the world eliminated malaria.
Nowadays, there are 99 endemic countries—67 are controlling malaria and 32 are pursuing …

Women's and children's health has seen significant progress in recent decades, however,
gains have been uneven and inequalities persist. The Every Woman Every Child (EWEC) …