{"id":987519422,"date":"2022-06-27T15:47:19","date_gmt":"2022-06-27T14:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/documents\/health-coverage-and-financial-protection-in-uganda-a-political-economy-perspective-2\/"},"modified":"2022-06-27T15:47:19","modified_gmt":"2022-06-27T14:47:19","slug":"health-coverage-and-financial-protection-in-uganda-a-political-economy-perspective-2","status":"publish","type":"documents","link":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/documents\/health-coverage-and-financial-protection-in-uganda-a-political-economy-perspective-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Health coverage and financial protection in Uganda: A political economy perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It has been over 20 years since Uganda abolished user-fees to improve access to health services and reduce the financial burden of accessing care. However, household out-of-pocket expenditures are still persistently very high contributing 42% of total health expenditure. Despite this, the country has not yet implemented a pooled prepayment scheme at the national level, putting vulnerable households at an increased risk of incurring catastrophic health expenditures.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nIn this article, the authors analysed the Ugandan experience of health financing reforms with a specific focus on financial protection which is one of the key pillars of Universal Health Coverage (UHC). The authors conducted a qualitative study by doing both desk review of relevant documents and a total of 60 key informant interviews with the relevant stakeholders in the health sector. The results of the study shows that the \u00a0political situation was not yet conducive for implementing a UHC system with widespread financial protection: dominant interests and ideologies did not create a net incentive to implement a comprehensive scheme for this purpose. The health financing landscape remained extremely fragmented, and community-based initiatives to improve health coverage were not supported by a clear government stewardship.<br \/>\nThe full article can be downloaded using the link below<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been over 20 years since Uganda abolished user-fees to improve access to health services and reduce the financial burden of accessing care. However, household out-of-pocket expenditures are still persistently very high contributing 42% of total health expenditure. Despite this, the country has not yet implemented a pooled prepayment scheme at the national level,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1293,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[],"tags":[118,128],"document_type":[2321],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/documents\/987519422"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/documents"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/documents"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1293"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987519422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/documents\/987519422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987519422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987519422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987519422"},{"taxonomy":"document_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document_type?post=987519422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}