Recent Studies from Department of Planning Add New Data to Managed Care (An assessment of the core capacities of the Senegalese health system to deliver Universal Health Coverage)

2020 SEP 29 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News -- A new study on Managed Care is now available. According to news reporting originating from Dakar, Senegal, by NewsRx correspondents, research stated, “Senegal is firmly committed to the objective of universal health coverage (UHC). Various initiatives have been launched over the past decade to protect the Senegalese population against health hazards, but these initiatives are so far fragmented.”

Financial supporters for this research include Association pour la Recherche sur le Cancer, Federation Wallonie-Bruxelles.

Our news editors obtained a quote from the research from the Department of Planning, “UHC cannot be achieved without health system strengthening (HSS). Here we assess the core capacities of the Senegalese health systems to deliver UHC, and identify requirements for HSS in order to implement and facilitate progress towards UHC. Based on a critical review of existing data and documents, complemented by the authors’ experience in supporting UHC policy making and implementation, we evaluate the main foundational and institutional bottlenecks relative to the six health system building blocks, together with an analysis of the demand-side of the health system, which facilitate or hamper progress towards UHC. Despite the fact that many institutions are now in place to deliver UHC, important weaknesses limit progress along the two dimensions of UHC. Substantial disparities characterise resource allocation in the health sector, and health risk protection schemes are highly fragmented. This spreads down to the rest of the health system including service delivery and consequently, impacts on health outcomes. These constraints are acknowledged by the authorities, solutions have been proposed, but these necessitate strong political will.”

According to the news editors, the research concluded: “Moreover, progress towards UHC is constrained by the difficulty to act on social determinants of health and a lack of fiscal space.”

For more information on this research see: An assessment of the core capacities of the Senegalese health system to deliver Universal Health Coverage. Health Policy Open, 2020;1():100012.

The news editors report that additional information may be obtained by contacting Youssoupha Ndiaye, Ministry of Health and Social Affairs, Dept. of Planning, Research and Statistics (DPRS), Rue Aime Cesaire, Fann Residence, Dakar, Senegal. Additional authors for this research include Elisabeth Paul, Farba L. Sall, Fabienne Fecher and Denis Porignon.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hpopen.2020.100012. 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.

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