The percentage of India's national budget allocated to the health sector remains one of the
lowest in the world, and healthcare expenditures are largely out-of-pocket (OOP). Currently …

Ethnographies of health systems are a theoretically rich and rapidly growing area within
medical anthropology. Critical ethnographic work dating back to the 1950s has taken …

In this lesson-packed book, Mark Nichter, one of the world's leading medical
anthropologists, summarizes what more than a quarter-century of health social science …

Set in one of the world's most unequal and violent places, this ethnographic study reveals
how insurance companies discovered a vast market of predominantly poor African clients …

The global disparity of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a major challenge, with many
low‐and middle‐income countries (LMICs) experiencing limited access to MRI. The reasons …

There is increasing international consensus that countries need to reduce health system
fragmentation in order to achieve universal health coverage (UHC). Yet there is little …

Background Universal health coverage (UHC) has provided the impetus for the introduction
of publicly funded health insurance (PFHI) schemes in the mixed health systems of India and …

This paper explores the dynamics of access under the state-funded universal health
insurance scheme in Chhattisgarh, India, and specifically the relationship between choice …

In 2010, the World Health Organization (WHO) released a call for all countries to move
towards 'Universal Health Coverage'(UHC). The WHO defines UHC as «ensuring that all …

Abstract The turn towards Universal Health Coverage (UHC) in the past decade raises the
question of the role of the state, following years of state withdrawal and a fragmented …