Researcher at Universite Paris Cite Zeroes in on Health Policy and Planning (External influences over Senegalese health financing policy: delaying universal health coverage?): Health and Medicine – Health Policy and Planning

2023 DEC 08 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News -- Investigators publish new report on health policy and planning. According to news reporting out of Paris, France, by NewsRx editors, research stated, “Senegal has long sought solutions to achieve universal health coverage (UHC).”

Our news journalists obtained a quote from the research from Universite Paris Cite: “However, in a context dependent on international aid, the country faces multiple external pressures to choose policy instruments. In this commentary, we propose an analysis of this influence. The empirical material comes from our involvement in analysing health reforms for 20 years and from many interviews and observations. While studies have shown that community-based health insurance (CBHI) was not an appropriate solution for UHC, some international actors have influenced their continued application. Another global partner proposed an alternative (professional and departmental CBHI), which was counteracted and delayed.”

According to the news reporters, the research concluded: “These issues of powers and influences of international and national consultants, established in a neo-liberal approach to health, have lost at least a decade from UHC in Senegal. The alternative now appears to be acquired and is scaling up at the country level, witnessing a change in the current policy paradigm.”

For more information on this research see: External influences over Senegalese health financing policy: delaying universal health coverage?. Health Policy and Planning, 2023. The publisher for Health Policy and Planning is Oxford University Press (OUP).

A free version of this journal article is available at https://doi.org/10.1093/heapol/czad108.

Our news editors report that additional information may be obtained by contacting Valery Ridde, Universite Paris Cite, Research Institute for Development, French National Institute of Health and Medical Research (INSERM), Ceped, 45, Rue des Saints Peres, Paris F-75006, France. Additional authors for this research include Jean-Hugues Caffin, Fatoumata Hane.

ORCID is an identifier for authors and includes bibliographic information. The following is ORCID information for the author of this research: Valery Ridde (http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9299-8266).

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