Data on Health Insurance Reported by Researchers at Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (Leaving no one behind: lessons on rebuilding health…

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Data on Health Insurance Reported by Researchers at Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (Leaving no one behind: lessons on rebuilding health systems in conflict- and crisis-affected states)

By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Managed Care Weekly Digest -- Research findings on Health Insurance are discussed in a new report. According to news reporting originating from Liverpool, United Kingdom, by NewsRx correspondents, research stated, "Conflict and fragility are increasing in many areas of the world. This context has been referred to as the 'new normal' and affects a billion people."

Financial support for this research came from Department for International Development (see also Health Insurance).

Our news editors obtained a quote from the research from the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, "Fragile and conflict-affected states have the worst health indicators and the weakest health systems. This presents a major challenge to achieving universal health coverage. The evidence base for strengthening health systems in these contexts is very weak and hampered by limited research capacity, challenges relating to insecurity and apparent low prioritisation of this area of research by funders. This article reports on findings from a multicountry consortium examining health systems rebuilding post conflict/crisis in Sierra Leone, Zimbabwe, northern Uganda and Cambodia. Across the ReBUILD consortium's interdisciplinary research programme, three cross-cutting themes have emerged through our analytic process: communities, human resources for health and institutions. Understanding the impact of conflict/crisis on the intersecting inequalities faced by households and communities is essential for developing responsive health policies. Health workers demonstrate resilience in conflict/crisis, yet need to be supported post conflict/crisis with appropriate policies related to deployment and incentives that ensure a fair balance across sectors and geographical distribution. Postconflict/crisis contexts are characterised by an influx of multiple players and efforts to support coordination and build strong responsive national and local institutions are critical."

According to the news editors, the research concluded: "The ReBUILD evidence base is starting to fill important knowledge gaps, but further research is needed to support policy makers and practitioners to develop sustainable health systems, without which disadvantaged communities in postconflict and postcrisis contexts will be left behind in efforts to promote universal health coverage."

For more information on this research see: Leaving no one behind: lessons on rebuilding health systems in conflict- and crisis-affected states. Bmj Global Health, 2017;2(2):e000327.

The news editors report that additional information may be obtained by contacting T. Martineau, Dept. of International Public Health, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, UK. Additional authors for this research include B. McPake, S. Theobald, J. Raven, T. Ensor, S. Fustukian, F. Ssengooba, Y. Chirwa, S. Vong, H. Wurie, N. Hooton and S. Witter.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2017-000327. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.

Keywords for this news article include: Europe, Liverpool, United Kingdom, Article Review, Health Insurance.