Colorectal cancer is the third most common cancer in Indonesia with approximately 28,000 patients diagnosed each year. Without population-based screening, patients are often treated when they reach the...
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National lists of essential medicines lay out the medicines needed to meet each country’s top health priorities....
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India is home to 69 million people with type-2 diabetes. A serious complication of the disease is foot ulcers, which significantly increase a patient’s risk of amputation and death as well as financial burden....
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Health Technology Assessment (HTA) is one approach countries can take to prioritise health services in a systematic and transparent way. iDSI has traced the origins of HTA in China, from its introduction to...
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Financing, political support and a clear strategic vision are key drivers of the realisation of Universal Health Coverage. As Ghana moves away from development assistance, iDSI traced Ghana’s path towards UHC...
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Smart decisions about healthcare spending are vital to countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, where resources are incredibly constrained and every dollar spent is often literally a life or death decision....
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Almost every diabetic patient in Indonesia that requires insulin to control their blood sugar is treated with the newer generation insulin analogue, despite internationally recognized guidance that low and...
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Using Health Technology Assessment to address inefficient and unequal use of Nilotinib across Indonesia...
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The essential component of a successful universal health coverage program...
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Information is the only block among the six health systems building blocks that comprehensively describes the other five blocks of health service delivery, workforce, financing, medicine and technology and...
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The World Health Organization in 1978 (WHO 1978) advocated for primary health care (PHC) as a strategy to achieve Health For All (HFA) by the year 2000....
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Universal health coverage (UHC) aims to “ensure that all people can use the promotive, preventive, curative, rehabilitative and palliative health services they need, and that these are of sufficient...
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