Jeanette Vega

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identify three categories of challenges that have to be addressed to maintain and enhance human health in the face of increasingly harmful environmental trends: conceptual and empathy failures (imagination challenges), such as an overreliance on gross domestic product as a measure of human progress, the failure to account for future health and environmental harms over present day gains, and the disproportionate eff ect of those harms on the poor and those in developing nations.

TL;DR: Although all the BRICS countries have devoted increased resources to health, the biggest increase has been in China, which was probably facilitated by China's rapid economic growth, and India, the second highest economic growth country, has had the least improvement in public funding for health.

TL;DR: The passage of a UN General Assembly resolution on universal health coverage (UHC) in December, 2012, underlines how UHC is becoming a key global health objective and shows the impressive momentum behind the need to accelerate action towards UHC as a strategy for improving health and ameliorating inequities in health.

TL;DR: As part of the Universal Health Coverage Collection, Ahmad Reza Hosseinpoor and colleagues discuss methodological considerations for equity-oriented monitoring of universal health coverage, and propose recommendations for monitoring and target setting.

TL;DR: The goal of this paper is to initiate a dialogue on the critical issues in health systems research with a series of papers from the HSR Symposium.