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Volume 6
Journal of Infectious Diseases and Therapy
ISSN: 2332-0877
Infection Congress 2018
March 01-02, 2018
March 01-02, 2018 Berlin, Germany
5
th
International Congress on
INFECTIOUS DISEASES
Towards universal health coverage: An example of malaria intervention in Nepal
Shiva Raj Adhikari
Tribhuvan University-Patan Multiple Campus, Nepal
A
comprehensive and more integrated assessment of health system functioning requires to measure the universal health
coverage (UHC) for the diseases specific interventions. This paper aims to contribute measurement of the UHC by
utilizing the locally available data related to Malaria in Nepal. This paper utilizes the elements of UHC as outlined by WHO
report 2010: population coverage, service coverage and financial coverage. The concept of UHC represents both improvements
in health outcomes and protection people from poverty induced by health-care costs. Measuring UHC focusing on tropical
disease highlights the progress made towards elimination of diseases and exhibits health system bottlenecks to achieve the goal
of elimination of diseases. Several bottlenecks are found from the results in the Nepalese health system which strongly suggests
focusing on health system strengthening to shift the health production function of Malaria intervention. The disaggregated
data clearly shows the inequality of service coverage among sub groups of the population. Effective coverage of the Malaria
intervention indicates the insufficient quality of intervention. None of households faced catastrophic impact due to payment
for malaria care in Nepal; however, it doesn’t capture the hospital based care of malaria. The paper provides current status of
UHC for malaria intervention and system bottlenecks to where policy makers and stakeholders should give focus to improve
the malaria control strategy of Nepal
.
sssadhikari@yahoo.comJ Infect Dis Ther 2018, Volume 6
DOI: 10.4172/2332-0877-C1-039