The place of learning in a universal health coverage health policy process: the case of the RAMED policy in Morocco.

ABSTRACT:

Background

To progress towards universal health coverage (UHC), each country will have to develop its systemic learning capacity. This study aims at documenting how, across time, learning can feed into a UHC policy process, and how the latter can itself strengthen (or not) the learning capacity of the health system. It specifically focuses on the development of a major health financing policy aligned with the UHC goal in Morocco, the RAMED, a health financing scheme covering hospital costs for the poorest segment of the population.

Methods

We conducted a retrospective analysis of the RAMED policy for the period between 1997 and 2018, along with a case study design. For the data collection and analysis, we developed a framework combining Garvin's learning organisation framewo

SUBMITTER: Akhnif E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6383252 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature