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How has sustainable development goals declaration influenced health financing reforms for universal health coverage at the country level? A scoping review of literature

BACKGROUND: Achieving universal health coverage (UHC) requires health financing reforms (HFR) in many of the countries. HFR are inherently political. The sustainable development goals (SDG) declaration provides a global political commitment context that can influence HFR for UHC at national level. H...

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Autores principales: Odoch, Walter Denis, Senkubuge, Flavia, Hongoro, Charles
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8066969/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33892757
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12992-021-00703-6
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description BACKGROUND: Achieving universal health coverage (UHC) requires health financing reforms (HFR) in many of the countries. HFR are inherently political. The sustainable development goals (SDG) declaration provides a global political commitment context that can influence HFR for UHC at national level. However, how the declaration has influenced HFR discourse at the national level and how ministries of health and other stakeholders are using the declaration to influence reforms towards UHC have not been explored. This review was conducted to provide information and lessons on how SDG declaration can influence health financing reforms for UHC based on countries experiences. METHODS: We conducted a rapid review of literature and followed the preferred reporting items for systematic review and meta-analysis (PRISMA) guideline. We conducted a comprehensive electronic search on Ovid Medline, PubMed, EBSCO, Scopus, Web of Science. In searching the electronic databases, we combined various conceptual terms for “sustainable development goals” and “health financing” using Boolean operators. In addition, we conducted manual searched using google scholar. RESULTS: Twelve articles satisfied our eligibility criteria. The included articles were analyzed thematically, and the results presented narratively. The SDG declaration has provided an enabling environment for putting in place necessary legislations, reforming health financing organization, and revisions of national health polices to align to the country’s commitment on UHC. However, there is limited information on the process; how health ministries and other stakeholders have used SDG declaration to advocate, lobby, and engage various constituencies to support HFR for UHC. CONCLUSION: The SDG declaration can be a catalyst for health financing reform, providing reference for necessary legislations and policies for financing UHC. However, to facilitate better cross-country learning on how SDG declaration catalyzes HFR for UHC there, is need to examine the processes of how stakeholders have used the declaration as window of opportunity to accelerate reforms. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12992-021-00703-6.
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spelling pubmed-80669692021-04-26 How has sustainable development goals declaration influenced health financing reforms for universal health coverage at the country level? A scoping review of literature Odoch, Walter Denis Senkubuge, Flavia Hongoro, Charles Global Health Research BACKGROUND: Achieving universal health coverage (UHC) requires health financing reforms (HFR) in many of the countries. HFR are inherently political. The sustainable development goals (SDG) declaration provides a global political commitment context that can influence HFR for UHC at national level. However, how the declaration has influenced HFR discourse at the national level and how ministries of health and other stakeholders are using the declaration to influence reforms towards UHC have not been explored. This review was conducted to provide information and lessons on how SDG declaration can influence health financing reforms for UHC based on countries experiences. METHODS: We conducted a rapid review of literature and followed the preferred reporting items for systematic review and meta-analysis (PRISMA) guideline. We conducted a comprehensive electronic search on Ovid Medline, PubMed, EBSCO, Scopus, Web of Science. In searching the electronic databases, we combined various conceptual terms for “sustainable development goals” and “health financing” using Boolean operators. In addition, we conducted manual searched using google scholar. RESULTS: Twelve articles satisfied our eligibility criteria. The included articles were analyzed thematically, and the results presented narratively. The SDG declaration has provided an enabling environment for putting in place necessary legislations, reforming health financing organization, and revisions of national health polices to align to the country’s commitment on UHC. However, there is limited information on the process; how health ministries and other stakeholders have used SDG declaration to advocate, lobby, and engage various constituencies to support HFR for UHC. CONCLUSION: The SDG declaration can be a catalyst for health financing reform, providing reference for necessary legislations and policies for financing UHC. However, to facilitate better cross-country learning on how SDG declaration catalyzes HFR for UHC there, is need to examine the processes of how stakeholders have used the declaration as window of opportunity to accelerate reforms. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12992-021-00703-6. BioMed Central 2021-04-23 /pmc/articles/PMC8066969/ /pubmed/33892757 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12992-021-00703-6 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8066969/
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