Universal Health Coverage and Primary Healthcare: Lessons From Japan; Comment on “Achieving Universal Health Coverage by Focusing on Primary Care in Japan: Lessons for Low- and Middle-Income Countries”

A recent editorial by Naoki Ikegami has proposed three key lessons from Japan’s experience of achieving virtually universal coverage with primary healthcare services: the need to integrate the existing providers of primary healthcare services into the organised health system; the need to limit gover...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gerald Bloom
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Kerman University of Medical Sciences 2017-04-01
Series:International Journal of Health Policy and Management
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Online Access:http://www.ijhpm.com/article_3265_1ac0e8507e9014c0d4abbac49d363fd7.pdf