Publications by authors named "Sambo Pheakdey"
Article Synopsis
- Achieving universal health coverage (UHC) is challenged by COVID-19's impact on tax revenue, necessitating a focus on improving technical efficiency within existing health financing.
- This study analyzes Cambodia's public health services to determine their technical efficiency and how current funding can be leveraged to expand social health coverage.
- Findings indicate that improving efficiency could potentially increase hospital and health center outputs significantly, allowing an additional 4.69 million people to benefit from social health insurance under current financing, emphasizing the need for better service quality and regulation of private providers.
Improving Health Service Quality in the Kingdom of Cambodia: A Policy Perspective.
Asia Pac J Public Health
November 2020
The achievement of Universal Health Coverage, including quality services, is high on the international agenda. Cambodia aims to expand social health protection and is committed to improving the healthcare service quality. We review the country context and propose five policy approaches to accelerate progress on healthcare quality improvement in Cambodia.
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