ArticleBMJ open2024
Digital technologies for health financing in low-income and middle-income countries: a scoping review protocol.
Article in BMJ open, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.
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6 citing papers in PubMed.
- Is Digital Healthcare Better Than None? The Digital Health Technology Dilemma in Low-Income Countries.Asian bioethics review · 2026Article
- Paying for hospital care in seven central and Eastern European countries - a comparative analysis.Health economics review · 2026Article
- Health financing strategies for achieving Universal Health Coverage in low- and middle-income countries: a narrative review.Frontiers in public health · 2026Review
- Examining the potential of mobile money-based health insurance for people living with HIV and hypertension or diabetes in Uganda.Frontiers in health services · 2026Article
- Performance-based financing in Rwanda: a qualitative analysis of healthcare provider perspectives.BMC health services research · 2025Article
- Digital technologies for health financing in low-income and middle-income countries: a scoping review protocol.BMJ open · 2024Article
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Abstract
introductionUniversal health coverage (UHC) is a global priority, ensuring equitable access to quality healthcare services without financial hardship. Many countries face challenges in progressing towards UHC. Health financing is pivotal for advancing UHC by raising revenues, enabling risk-sharing through pooling of funds and allocating resources. Digital technologies in the healthcare sector offer promising opportunities for health systems. In low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs), digital technologies for health financing (DTHF) have gained traction, supporting these three main functions of health financing for UHC. As existing information on DTHF in LMICs is limited, our scoping review aims to provide a comprehensive overview of DTHF in LMICs. Our objectives include identifying and describing existing DTHF, exploring evaluation approaches, examining their positive and negative effects, and investigating facilitating factors and barriers to implementation at the national level. METHODS AND ANALYSIS: Our scoping review follows the six stages proposed by Arksey and O'Malley, further developed by Levac ETHICS AND DISSEMINATION: As our scoping review is based solely on information gathered from previously published studies, documents and publicly available scientific literature, ethical clearance is not required for its conduct. The findings are presented and discussed in a peer-reviewed article, as well as shared at conferences relevant to the topic.
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