Such investments have the potential to: realize human rights to health and social security increase equitable access to health care and thus equity in health reduce poverty and impoverishment contribute to economic growth sustain development by increased employment and productivity result in social peace, social justice and cohesion.
realize human rights to health and social security increase equitable access to health care and thus equity in health reduce poverty and impoverishment contribute to economic growth sustain development by increased employment and productivity result in social peace, social justice and cohesion.
In addition, we have to take note of the dual role of healthcare in directly making our lives better – reducing our impoverishment in ways that matter to all human beings – as well as helping to remove poverty, assessed even in purely economic terms.
Reducing medical impoverishment and inequality are part of the stated goals of the NCMS.
For this reason universal pooling of resources in health is of vital importance both to reduce the risk of impoverishment and of barriers to care.
Reducing healthcare-related impoverishment, through improved design of healthcare services and access to financial protection [ 3], is essential for the progressive realization of universal health coverage [ 4].
Using a large vegetation dataset from an old hyper-fragmented landscape in the Brazilian Atlantic rainforest we assess whether the local extirpation of tree species and functional impoverishment of tree assemblages reduce the phylogenetic diversity of the remaining tree assemblages.
The available evidence indicates that MHO members tend to have lower out-of-pocket payments compared with non-members (Schneider and Diop 2001; Ranson 2002; Jowett et al. 2003; Jütting 2004), and MHOs that cover inpatient care can reduce the percentage of hospitalizations resulting in impoverishment (Ranson 2002; Devadasan et al. 2007).
Today, most countries already have or are establishing pre-payment and risk-pooling systems that combine tax-based financing with premium-based social health insurance and veer away from inefficient and expensive 'fee-for-service' payment models, all aimed to reduce out-of-pocket expenditures and prevent impoverishment among households (30).
Lessening the vulnerability of socially disadvantaged people by intervening through TB control programmes can reduce the unequal consequences of ill health and prevent further impoverishment and injustice among disadvantaged populations.
