Health equity can generally be defined as everyone has a fair opportunity to be healthy. As an important performance goal of the health system, health equity is achieved when each individual can attain their full potential for health and well-being. Multiple international organizations such as World Health Organization and World Bank had proposed varieties of health system modeling, of which health equity is the common outcome index. Although the theme of health equity has already been popular for the past 20 years, such health disparities persist today, together with various emerging new challenges. For instance, although substantial global progress has been made in reducing child deaths in the past two decades, differences still exist in under-five mortality across regions and countries. The inequality of life expectancy for adults also existed in low- and middle-income countries.
Currently, with covid-19 still raging across the world, the catastrophic health expenditures have aggravated poverty and stifled development. In addition, health inequity-related issues have further led to significant financial costs to societies. Consequently, how to increase universal health coverage and reduce the impoverishment associated with payment for health services bring new challenges for promoting health equity.
In order to tackle these challenges and improve health equity, health systems across the globe are now being transformed. These include transformations in health financing models, medical payment systems, health organizational structures, health system regulations, etc. The purpose of health reformation is to increase access to health services and primary healthcare, to improve utilization of health services, to decrease the disease burden among the vulnerable population, and ultimately, to improve health equity.
The goal of this Research Topic is to improve health services equity and outcome-based health equity by gathering health system transformation experiences and disseminating advanced policy interventions from all over the world. Moreover, we aim to contribute to providing references for decision-making, improving the health system performance and health services utilization among vulnerable populations across the globe.
We encourage Original Research and Systematic Reviews, and we welcome submissions addressing, but not limited to, the following themes:
• How does the health financing transformation improve health equity?
• How do the health organizational structures improve health equity?
• How could we promote health equity by transforming the governance model of the health system?
• How could we promote health equity by transforming the medical provider payment?
• How could we accept cost-effective interventions to improve health equity?
• How could we effectively address the health issues of vulnerable populations?
• How to achieve health equity by improving health utilization?
• How to achieve health equity by effective preventive policies during and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic.
Health equity can generally be defined as everyone has a fair opportunity to be healthy. As an important performance goal of the health system, health equity is achieved when each individual can attain their full potential for health and well-being. Multiple international organizations such as World Health Organization and World Bank had proposed varieties of health system modeling, of which health equity is the common outcome index. Although the theme of health equity has already been popular for the past 20 years, such health disparities persist today, together with various emerging new challenges. For instance, although substantial global progress has been made in reducing child deaths in the past two decades, differences still exist in under-five mortality across regions and countries. The inequality of life expectancy for adults also existed in low- and middle-income countries.
Currently, with covid-19 still raging across the world, the catastrophic health expenditures have aggravated poverty and stifled development. In addition, health inequity-related issues have further led to significant financial costs to societies. Consequently, how to increase universal health coverage and reduce the impoverishment associated with payment for health services bring new challenges for promoting health equity.
In order to tackle these challenges and improve health equity, health systems across the globe are now being transformed. These include transformations in health financing models, medical payment systems, health organizational structures, health system regulations, etc. The purpose of health reformation is to increase access to health services and primary healthcare, to improve utilization of health services, to decrease the disease burden among the vulnerable population, and ultimately, to improve health equity.
The goal of this Research Topic is to improve health services equity and outcome-based health equity by gathering health system transformation experiences and disseminating advanced policy interventions from all over the world. Moreover, we aim to contribute to providing references for decision-making, improving the health system performance and health services utilization among vulnerable populations across the globe.
We encourage Original Research and Systematic Reviews, and we welcome submissions addressing, but not limited to, the following themes:
• How does the health financing transformation improve health equity?
• How do the health organizational structures improve health equity?
• How could we promote health equity by transforming the governance model of the health system?
• How could we promote health equity by transforming the medical provider payment?
• How could we accept cost-effective interventions to improve health equity?
• How could we effectively address the health issues of vulnerable populations?
• How to achieve health equity by improving health utilization?
• How to achieve health equity by effective preventive policies during and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic.
