Journal
BMC Global and Public Health
BMC Global and Public Health is the new broad scope and selective journal of BMC, a pioneer in open access publishing.
To achieve meaningful progress on UHC, major improvements will be required in health financing. The amount of government spending on health, i.e., health expenditure, has crucial public health implications. Inadequate government spending on health can result in a lack of quality health services, cost barriers that discourage people from accessing necessary care, or even financial catastrophe, leading to discontinued healthcare utilization. There is also significant heterogeneity in people's vulnerability to constantly changing health financing policies. The rising health needs of populations and increased healthcare expenditure also pose a significant health equity challenge.
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Samir Garg: State Health Resource Centre Chhattisgarh, India
Samir Garg is a health systems researcher with more than two decades of experience. He has worked closely with governments as the head of India's health systems think tank. He has worked extensively for the World Health Organization in Southeast Asia, the Western Pacific, and Europe. His areas of interest include policies for universal health coverage in low- and middle-income countries, health financing, primary health care, and human resources for health. -
Chaw-Yin Myint, MB, BS, MPH, PhD, RWS Medical Services, Myanmar
Dr Chaw-Yin Myint is a Myanmar Physician and Health Economist who pursued her PhD program in "The Burden of Health Care Use and the Feasibility of Health Insurance Reform in Myanmar" in 2019. She received the Netherland Fellowship Program award for her PhD program. She earned an MPH from Mahidol University, Thailand, and a Bachelor of Medicine from the University of Medicine 1, Myanmar.