At more than 50%, India has one of the world’s highest out-of-pocket healthcare expenditure rates. Historically, low cost healthcare has been provided by the government through public healthcare facilities. Faced with a high demand for tertiary healthcare and an overcrowded public healthcare infrastructure, the central and various state governments adopted a model of public-private-partnership...
State-funded health insurance schemes are increasingly implemented in the Global South, but utilization and acceptance often remains lower than desired for Universal Health Coverage. Including features that address the beneficiary population’s preferences could improve this. We conducted a Discrete Choice Experiment to elicit preferences for a new public outpatient health insurance for...
In many countries access to quality health care services is still low and access affordable, quality-assured, and effective medicine constrained by inadequate regulation, poor supply chain management, and weak gate-keeping. In such settings, self-medication is common. In this study, we aim to better understand self-medication with antibiotics in Burkina Faso. Chemical quality testing of...
