In some locations, it has introduced health facilities for medical check-ups, prescriptions and other basic healthcare services.
The scheme offers its members access to basic healthcare services in three clinics: two in Albinsaid's hometown of Malang, East Java, and one near Jakarta.
Specifically, both Moldova and Georgia provide free basic healthcare services to children, irrespective of the location of household members or the socio-economic status (Rukhadze, 2013; UNICEF, 2008).
Systematic Community Engagement (SCE) in healthcare quality assessment remains a grey area in many health systems in Africa, albeit the increasing importance in promoting universal access to quality basic healthcare services.
Each of these in different ways documents how dominant Western technological practices are crossing geographical boundaries, influencing developing economies, and often diverting scarce resources from basic healthcare services that could reduce preventable morbidity and mortality.
Since 2005, MEDLIFE has been working with its mobile clinics to bring basic healthcare services to urban slums outside of Lima, Peru, as well as the rural areas of Cuzco, Peru and Tena and Riobamba, Ecuador.
Even though the CHPS programme has contributed to increased accessibility to basic healthcare services in Ghana, the programme by design does not appear to include active engagement of community groups in healthcare quality assessment especially in the context of the NHIS.
Fortunately, 90% of these deaths can be averted with access to basic healthcare services and emergency obstetric care.
"Medically necessary speech and occupational therapy are basic healthcare services that health plans must cover," said Brent Barnhart, the state healthcare agency's director.
"Californians shouldn't be forced to put their house on the line in order to receive basic healthcare services," he said.
