{"id":987525708,"date":"2022-07-08T03:50:36","date_gmt":"2022-07-08T02:50:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/news\/health-equity-in-egypt-reflections-in-2022\/"},"modified":"2023-03-02T09:26:20","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T08:26:20","slug":"health-equity-in-egypt-reflections-in-2022","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/news\/health-equity-in-egypt-reflections-in-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Health Equity in Egypt: Reflections in 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This <strong>commentary<\/strong> sheds the light on the current health equity landscape in <strong>Egypt<\/strong>. It <strong>addresses equity issues relating to affordability, access, availability, utilization of health services<\/strong>&nbsp;and implications on health outcomes.<\/p>\n<p>On the policy level, Egypt has demonstrated commitment to this agenda item on several fronts. In addition to adopting these international frameworks, Egypt has included health in its <a href=\"https:\/\/arabdevelopmentportal.com\/sites\/default\/files\/publication\/sds_egypt_vision_2030.pdf\">Sustainable Development Strategy,&nbsp;<em>Vision 2030<\/em><\/a>, with targets related to availability and financial coverage of services (<em>Government of Egypt, 2014<\/em>). Moreover, in 2018, Egypt adopted a <strong>Universal Health Insurance law <\/strong>(UHI) aiming to cover all Egyptians with adequate financial protection (<em>Mathauer et al., 2019).<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mandatory contributions,<\/strong> proportional to individuals\u2019 income, are estimated to account for almost <strong>50% of total UHI revenues<\/strong>, while the share of general budget allocations to subsidize the contributions of poor and vulnerable populations (around one third of the population) is estimated at around 22% of UHI revenues.<\/p>\n<p>The author says that Egypt faces varying health inequity challenges and has long-term improvement goals with the rollout of the <strong>UHI by 2032<\/strong>. Short- and medium-term actions are needed to address health inequity in Egypt. The <strong>pandemic provides Egypt with an opportunity<\/strong> to streamline reforms and locate and strengthen weak spots in its health system.<\/p>\n<p><em>To know more, read the full article originally published in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/english.ahram.org.eg\/News\/446251.aspx\">A<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/aps.aucegypt.edu\/en\/articles\/786\/health-equity-in-egypt-reflections-in-2022\">lternative Policy Solutions<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Have anything to say about Egypt&#8217;s social health protection and universal health coverage? Please let us know in the comments section below.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><sup><em>Image: Pexels<\/em><\/sup><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This commentary sheds the light on the current health equity landscape in Egypt. It addresses equity issues relating to affordability, access, availability, utilization of health services&nbsp;and implications on health outcomes. On the policy level, Egypt has demonstrated commitment to this agenda item on several fronts. In addition to adopting these international frameworks, Egypt has included&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":559,"featured_media":987527081,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987525708"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/559"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987525708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987525708\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/987527081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987525708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987525708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987525708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}