How can health equity be improved in Myanmar?

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"1. What are the challenges? Myanmar is a country in which people?s access to health services is determined more by where they live than their need for care ? a situation that is fundamentally inequitable. The challenge is to reduce levels of inequity between different groups in the population and different geographical areas, and most particularly to ensure that health services reach poor and disadvantaged groups, including minorities and those living in conflict-affected areas. 2. What do we know? There is a growing body of evidence about the extent and dimensions of health inequity in Myanmar..."

Source/publisher: 

Asia Pacific Observatory on Health Systems and Policies via WHO (Myanmar Health Systems in Transition - Policy Note #2)

Date of Publication: 

2015-00-00

Date of entry: 

2016-08-13

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English

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