Cloud Horizons: Strengthening Rural Healthcare Through Telemedicine's Digital Canopy.

Introduction: Cloud-based telemedicine holds promise for improving healthcare accessibility and delivery, particularly in rural areas of developing countries like Tanzania. However, little is known about its determinants and benefits in such contexts. This study investigates the factors influencing the usage of telemedicine in Mvomero district, Morogoro region, Tanzania, focusing on both supply and demand sides.

Does health insurance solve health care utilization puzzle in Tanzania?

Objectives: The global target of achieving universal health coverage by 2030 is a nightmare in most developing countries. To seek in-depth reasons, this study examines the effects of health insurance on healthcare utilization in Tanzania.

Study Design: This study used a non-experimental research design.

Equity in the public social healthcare protection in Tanzania: does it matter on household healthcare financing?

Efforts to promote equity in healthcare involve implementing policies and programs that address the root causes of healthcare disparities and promote equal access to care. One such program is the public social healthcare protection schemes. However, like many other developing countries, Tanzania has low health insurance coverage, hindering its efforts to achieve universal health coverage.

Analysis on the equity differential on household healthcare financing in developing countries: empirical evidence from Tanzania, East Africa.

Background: Achieving equity in healthcare services has been a global priority. According to the literature, a slew of initiatives aimed at increasing household equity in healthcare financing have exacerbated the problem, making it hard for most developing countries to understand the real cause of the problem.

Method: The non-experimental research design has been used to explore the Tanzania Panel Survey (NPS) data 2019/2020, to investigate equity differential in household healthcare financing in Tanzania by the use of conventional instrumental variable methods of Two-stage and Three-stage least square methods RESULTS: Despite the global agenda of universal health coverage, this paper reveals that 86 percent of Tanzania lacks health insurance with a high degree of inequitable distribution of health facilities as 71.

Comparative Analysis on Communicable and Non-Communicable Diseases on Catastrophic Spending and Impoverishment in Tanzania.

The question of whether communicable or non-communicable diseases have higher economic effects on households is rarely explored from the global to local level despite of their significant contribution in increasing household catastrophic spending and impoverishment. To shed light into this, therefore, this paper comparatively examines the economic effects of communicable and non-communicable diseases in Tanzania by the use of Tanzania Panel Survey data of 2019/2020 which has been used to analyze different parameters to provide needful information. The empirical analysis employed probit, two-stage residual inclusion (2SRI), and control function approachf (CFA) helpful in controlling endogeneity issues.