Thailand is compared to a weighted average of control countries in terms of aggregate health financing indicators, aggregate health outcomes and economic performance, over the period 1995 to 2012.
In this article, an overview of the Korean ECCE system is provided with a brief appraisal of the quality of the Korean ECCE system by referring to selected quality, access and financing indicators.
All health financing indicators used were as defined in the international System of Health Accounts (SHA).
Additionally, previous studies have documented the relationship between health systems financing indicators and financial risk protection [ 10, 19].
Any positive effect of EFI4 on (Log-) TB incidence over time was confounded by differences in socio-economic development (HDI), HIV prevalence and health financing indicators.
The IRR of this association rose up to 1.60 (95% CI: 1.17 2.30) when controlling for differences in HIV prevalence and health financing indicators (M3c-3.7 in Table 5).
To account for confounding by absolute and relative dimensions of health financing, a summary index (HSfinance-Index) was generated based on relevant health financing indicators (Supplementary Appendix p. 2).
The overall R (Supplementary Appendix p. 27) ranged between 11.8% in less adjusted models (M3c-3) and 60.6% in models accounting for EFI4, HIV and health financing indicators that reflect a government's commitment to invest in the health sector (M3c-3.9).
In particular, adjusting for differences in HDI, HIV prevalence and health financing indicators (Supplementary Appendix p. 25), respectively, in the models diminished any positive effect of EFI4 on Log-TB incidence.
Further research on relationship between health systems financing indicators, health systems indicators and non-health systems indicators and other aspects of universal health coverage need to be undertaken in order to better develop the monitoring and evaluation framework around this key concept.
