Learning from Brazil and Mozambique on Universal Health Coverage and accountability politics
The Unequal Voices project has produced vibrant policy engagements from the local to the global level, and for its final output, a set...
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The Unequal Voices project has produced vibrant policy engagements from the local to the global level, and for its final output, a set...
Published by: IDS
Inequity in access and utilisation of health-care services contribute to bad health outcomes, particularly among high risk groups such women and children. Since the declaration of independence in Mozambique in 1975, the newly formed government established, as a priority, maternal and child health (MCH) and the fight against the inequity between the rural and urban areas of residence. In the following years, Mozambique witnessed the improvement of access to and utilisation of the MCH services throughout the country.
Professor Asha George, a former IDS PhD researcher has been appointed as Chair of Health Systems Global - the first international...
Published by: IDS
This issue of the IDS Bulletin is based around three principal themes that emerged from the workshop as needing particular attention. First, the nature of accountability politics ‘in time’ and the cyclical aspects of efforts towards accountability for health equity. Second, the contested politics of ‘naming’ and measuring accountability, and the intersecting dimensions of marginalisation and exclusion that are missing from current debates. Third, the shifting nature of power in global health and new configurations of health actors, social contracts, and the role of technology.