R.P. Rannan-Eliya

TL;DR: This work estimates the magnitude and distribution of OOP payments for health care in fourteen countries and territories accounting for 81% of the Asian population and focuses on payments that are catastrophic, in the sense of severely disrupting household living standards, and approximate such payments by those absorbing a large fraction of household resources.

TL;DR: Malaysia's hybrid health system has been effective for many decades in equalizing health care use and providing protection from financial risk, despite modest government spending, and provides lessons for other emerging economies that want to expand access to health care despite limited fiscal resources.

TL;DR: Pro-poor pathways to UHC that provide access to services and financial protection to poor people from the beginning and that include people with low income in the design and development of UHC health financing and service provision mechanisms are endorsed.

TL;DR: The strong relationship of child height with maternal height suggests that epigenetic factors, proxied by short maternal height, constrain the applicability of the WHO growth standards in Sri Lanka.

TL;DR: The public system, with its limited funding, is able to deliver care in diagnosis and management that is similar to the private sector, while private sector patients, who spend more on their healthcare receive better quality care in non-clinical areas.