Coverage of cost-effective maternal health services remains poor due to insufficient supply and inadequate demand for these services among the poorest groups.
Expanding coverage of cost-effective interventions to treat these conditions will drive down child mortality significantly.
Cross-country comparisons show that health outcomes improved and coverage of cost-effective interventions increased with more health workers.
An estimated 18% to 37% of neonatal deaths, defined as deaths occurring during the first 28 days of life, could be averted through expanded coverage of cost-effective interventions, if delivered through family or community approaches [ 2].
However, this dynamism in preferences provides lots of opportunities for scaling-up because understanding current preferences and how they would respond to a proposed change in resource allocation (e.g. changing service delivery strategies) is the information that policy makers are looking for in order to improve coverage of cost-effective interventions in low-income countries.
These payments represent supplementary financial support and are not intended to provide full coverage of costs incurred for long-term care.
57 Coverage of costs by health authorities or health insurers for these preparations and novel prescriptions to patients who have not received other treatments should be discouraged.
Only patients who had completed the intensive phase of treatment (generally 2 months) and one month of the continuation phase of treatment were included, to ensure a wide coverage of costs.
For maximum coverage of costs, no relevant cost item was excluded from the study on à priori assumptions that it would be of a so modest magnitude that the cost of checking it further would not be reflected in a corresponding increase in the value of the study's results [ 12].
Problems reported in connection with cash-for-care programmes were the lack of regulation and coverage of costs; barriers to taking up the budget (such as lack of information among users); professionals wanting to control funding; obstacles to their use by people with a cognitive impairment [ 24]; and lack of support for cash benefit holders [ 22]. - Adequacy of home care expenditure.
The national report of an evaluation of the permission of PC activities by German health care insurances shows that the coverage of costs for specialised home care PC was denied especially (I) if patients were privately insured or (II) were suffering from a non-malignant disease [6].
