Eesha Desai is a Research Assistant on the Primary Health Care team. In this role, she works across research initiatives in both global and domestic primary care. Primarily, her role involves research surrounding the implementation and refinement of the Progression Model and Vital Signs Profile for the Primary Health Care Performance Initiative. Eesha is also… Continue reading Eesha Desai
Around the world, many countries are moving toward systems that support universal health coverage. In the United States, universal access to care has long been a topic of debate, with varying definitions and proposed solutions. While there may not be a one-size-fits-all approach to ensuring universal health coverage, there are valuable lessons to be learned… Continue reading Lessons from Costa Rica: Building A Universal Primary Health Care System
By June-Ho Kim, Jessica Wiken, and Joey Ross Countries around the world are driving towards universal health coverage by 2030. There is growing consensus that high-quality health coverage must be supported by strong primary health care (PHC) systems. However, many PHC systems are not capacitated with the governance, policy, and finance levers needed to be… Continue reading Advancing Primary Health Care in Uganda through Innovative Measurement and Effective Partnership
Improving primary health care is key for boosting a country’s overall development as well as achieving universal health coverage. In a new paper, a team of country-level leaders and primary health care experts describe new groundbreaking tools that can help low- and middle-income countries evaluate their primary health care systems, pinpoint problems, and then do… Continue reading Novel data tools help countries evaluate and improve primary health care