Because health systems are conceptualized as social systems, embedded in social contexts
and shaped by human agency, values are a key factor in health system change. As such …

Introduction Zimbabwe has one of the highest rates of private health insurance (PHI)
expenditures as a share of total health expenditures in the world. The perfomamce of PHI …

The COVID-19 pandemic has produced mass market failure in global private health,
particularly in tertiary care. Low-and-middle income countries (LMICs) dependent on private …

Introduction Understanding the cost of care associated with different kinds of healthcare
providers is necessary for informing the policy debates in mixed health-systems like India's …

In this special issue, we bring together anthropological and historical work that considers
successive aspirations towards 'health for all': their pasts, their futures, and their diverse …

With increasing adoption of universal health coverage (UHC), the health for all agenda is
resurgent around the world. However, after a promising start the first time in 1978, the health …

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 …

Abstract “Innovation”–whether in the form of digital technologies or business models–
dominates imaginaries of global health futures and is often promoted as a “solution” through …

The rise of universal health coverage (UHC) as a global policy endorsed in the Sustainable
Development Goals (SGDs) appears to signal new directions in global health as it …

A new paradigm of emergency R&D has transformed global health. Beginning with the 2014–
2016 Ebola virus disease epidemic in West Africa, experimental product development has …