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Universal health coverage: the long road ahead for low- and middle-income regions
Jakovljevic, Mihajlo; Ranabhat, Chhabi Lal; Izham, Mohamed; Ibrahim, Mohamed; Teixeira, João PauloUniversal health coverage (UHC) is one of the core Millennium Development Goals adopted in the United Nations and the World Health Organization’s (WHO) strategic agenda. Surprisingly, even as we approach the year 2021, achieving UHC to a reasonable extent and protecting the most vulnerable segments of native populations remains a challenge even for the richest of nations (1). In recent years, traditional world ...
Real GDP growth rates and healthcare spending – comparison between the G7 and t...
Jakovljevic, Mihajlo; Timofeyev, Yuriy; Ranabhat, Chhabi Lal; Fernandes, Paula Odete; Teixeira, João Paulo; Rancic, Nemanja; Reshetnikov, VladimirBackground: Accelerated globalisation has substantially contributed to the rise of emerging markets worldwide. The G7 and Emerging Markets Seven (EM7) behaved in significantly different macroeconomic ways before, during, and after the 2008 Global Crisis. Average real GDP growth rates remained substantially higher among the EM7, while unemployment rates changed their patterns after the crisis. Since 2017, howeve...
Measuring progress and projecting attainment on the basis of past trends of the...
Fullman, Nancy; Barber, Ryan M; Abajobir, Amanuel Alemu; Abate, Kalkidan Hassen; Abbafati, Cristiana; Abbas, Kaja M; Abd-Allah, FoadBackground: The UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are grounded in the global ambition of "leaving no one behind". Understanding today's gains and gaps for the health-related SDGs is essential for decision makers as they aim to improve the health of populations. As part of the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study 2016 (GBD 2016), we measured 37 of the 50 health-related SDG indicato...