[HTML][HTML] High-quality health systems in the Sustainable Development Goals era: time for a revolution

ME Kruk, AD Gage, C Arsenault, K Jordan… - The Lancet global …, 2018 - thelancet.com
Executive summary Although health outcomes have improved in low-income and middle-
income countries (LMICs) in the past several decades, a new reality is at hand. Changing …

Health-system reform and universal health coverage in Latin America

R Atun, LOM De Andrade, G Almeida, D Cotlear… - The Lancet, 2015 - thelancet.com
Starting in the late 1980s, many Latin American countries began social sector reforms to
alleviate poverty, reduce socioeconomic inequalities, improve health outcomes, and provide …

Planning cancer control in Latin America and the Caribbean

PE Goss, BL Lee, T Badovinac-Crnjevic… - The lancet …, 2013 - thelancet.com
Non-communicable diseases, including cancer, are overtaking infectious disease as the
leading health-care threat in middle-income and low-income countries. Latin American and …

Dissonant health transition in the states of Mexico, 1990–2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013

H Gómez-Dantés, N Fullman, H Lamadrid-Figueroa… - The Lancet, 2016 - thelancet.com
Background Child and maternal health outcomes have notably improved in Mexico since
1990, whereas rising adult mortality rates defy traditional epidemiological transition models …

Expansion of cancer care and control in countries of low and middle income: a call to action

P Farmer, J Frenk, FM Knaul, LN Shulman, G Alleyne… - The Lancet, 2010 - thelancet.com
Substantial inequalities exist in cancer survival rates across countries. In addition to
prevention of new cancers by reduction of risk factors, strategies are needed to close the …

Impact of noncommunicable disease multimorbidity on healthcare utilisation and out-of-pocket expenditures in middle-income countries: cross sectional analysis

JT Lee, F Hamid, S Pati, R Atun, C Millett - PloS one, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Background The burden of non-communicable disease (NCDs) has grown rapidly in low-
and middle-income countries (LMICs), where populations are ageing, with rising prevalence …

Extending health insurance to the rural population: an impact evaluation of China's new cooperative medical scheme

A Wagstaff, M Lindelow, G Jun, X Ling… - Journal of health …, 2009 - Elsevier
In 2003, China launched a heavily subsidized voluntary health insurance program for rural
residents. We combine differences-in-differences with matching methods to obtain impact …

The quest for universal health coverage: achieving social protection for all in Mexico

FM Knaul, E González-Pier, O Gómez-Dantés… - The Lancet, 2012 - thelancet.com
Mexico is reaching universal health coverage in 2012. A national health insurance
programme called Seguro Popular, introduced in 2003, is providing access to a package of …

Political and economic aspects of the transition to universal health coverage

WD Savedoff, D de Ferranti, AL Smith, V Fan - The Lancet, 2012 - thelancet.com
Countries have reached universal health coverage by different paths and with varying health
systems. Nonetheless, the trajectory toward universal health coverage regularly has three …

Setbacks in the quest for universal health coverage in Mexico: polarised politics, policy upheaval, and pandemic disruption

FM Knaul, H Arreola-Ornelas, M Touchton, T McDonald… - The Lancet, 2023 - thelancet.com
Summary 2023 marks the 20-year anniversary of the creation of Mexico's System of Social
Protection for Health and the Seguro Popular, a model for the global quest to achieve …