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 chapter provides an overview of the role of primary care in the context of global health.
Universal health coverage is a key priority for WHO and its member states, and provision of …

Introduction International evidence shows that enhancement of primary health care (PHC)
services for disadvantaged populations is essential to reducing health and health care …

A broad-ranging introduction to the provision, funding and governance of health care across
a variety of systems. This revised fifth edition incorporates additional material on low/middle …

Introduction Healthcare spending occurs disproportionately among a very small portion of
the population. Research on these high-cost users (HCUs) of health care has been …

It is a paradox of recent epidemiology that as material inequalities grow, so the pursuit of
non-material explanations for health outcomes proliferates. At one level, a greater …

In 2018, the global health community came together in Astana, Kazakhstan to celebrate the
40th anniversary of the 1978 International Conference on Primary Health Care and the …

Objective: Racism may affect health through differential access to, and quality of, healthcare.
This study examined associations between experience of racism and unmet need and …

Improved tuberculosis (TB) diagnosis and treatment through the DOTS and Stop TB
strategies have saved millions of lives; however, their impact on TB incidence has been …

Background Australia is a culturally diverse nation with one in seven Australians born in a
non-English speaking country. Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) populations are …