Table 2.
List of included studies
| Study ID | First author | Year | Title | Country of study | Policy/reform of focus |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Michael R Reich | 2015 | Moving towards universal health coverage: lessons from 11 country studies | Bangladesh, Brazil, Ethiopia, France, Ghana, Indonesia, Japan, Peru, Thailand, Turkey, and Vietnam | National Health Insurance Scheme (Ghana); service exchange agreements (Peru); tax revenues and earn marking |
| 2 | Tessa Oraro-Lawrence | 2020 | Policy levers and priority-setting in universal health coverage: a qualitative analysis of healthcare financing agenda setting in Kenya | Kenya | Health Financing Strategy 2016–2030, National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF) |
| 3 | Pakwanja Twea | 2020 | Allocating resources to support universal health coverage: policy processes and implementation in Malawi | Malawi | Essential Health Package (EHP) |
| 4 | Elisabeth Paul | 2020 | An assessment of the core capacities of the Senegalese health system to de-liver Universal Health Coverage | Senegal | Plan National de Développement Sanitaire et Social (PNDSS)2019–2028 |
| 5 | Diane McIntyre | 2008 | Beyond fragmentation and towards universal coverage: insights from Ghana, South Africa and the United Republic of Tanzania | Ghana, South Africa and the United Republic of Tanzania | Prepayment funding mechanisms, community-based health insurance (CBHI), private voluntary health insurance |
| 6 | Fabrizio Tediosi | 2015 | BRICS countries and the global movement for universal health coverage | BRICS countries: Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa | UHC agenda in general |
| 7 | Saudamini Vishwanath Dabak | 2018 | Budgeting for a billion: applying health technology assessment (HTA) for universal health coverage in India | India | Health technology assessment |
| 8 | Meghan Bruce Kumar | 2020 | How do decision-makers use evidence in community health policy and financing decisions? A qualitative study and conceptual framework in four African countries | Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique | Health financing |
| 9 | Elizabeth Pisani | 2017 | Indonesia's road to universal health coverage: a political journey | Indonesia | Health insurance |
| 10 | Robert K Basaza | 2013 | Players and processes behind the national health insurance scheme: a case study of Uganda | Uganda | Health financing |
| 11 | Bertone M | 2018 | The bumpy trajectory of performance-based financing for healthcare in Sierra Leone: agency, structure and frames shaping the policy process | Sierra Leone | Performance-based financing (PBF) |
| 12 | Bui TT Ha | 2014 | Policy processes underpinning universal health insurance in Vietnam | Vietnam | Health insurance |
| 13 | Octavio Gomez Dantes | 2015 | Political Economy of Pursuing the Expansion of Social Protection in Health in Mexico | Mexico | Social protection in health (SPH) |
| 14 | José Carlos R. Pueblita | 2013 | Screening Seguro Popular: The Political Economy of Universal Health Coverage in Mexico | Mexico | System of Social Protection in Health (SSPH) |
| 15 | Adam Fusheini | 2017 | Stakeholders Perspectives on the Success Drivers in Ghana’s National Health Insurance Scheme—Identifying Policy Translation Issues | Ghana | National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) |
| 16 | Rebecca Surender | 2015 | The drive for universal healthcare in South Africa: views from private general practitioners | South Africa | National Health Insurance |
| 17 | Kevin Croke | 2019 | The political economy of health financing reform in Malaysia | Malaysia | Health financing reforms |
| 18 | Witter S | 2019 | The political economy of results-based financing: the experience of the health system in Zimbabwe | Zimbabwe | Result-based financing |
| 19 | Tangcharoensathien, Viroj | 2019 | The Political Economy of UHC Reform in Thailand: Lessons for Low- and Middle-Income Countries | Thailand | Universal Coverage Scheme (UCS) |
| 20 | Benjamin Chemouni | 2016 | The political path to universal health coverage: Power, ideas and community-based health insurance in Rwanda | Rwanda | Community-based health insurance (CBHI) |
| 21 | Adam Fusheini | 2016 | The Politico-Economic Challenges of Ghana’s National Health Insurance Scheme Implementation | Ghana | National Health Insurance Scheme |
| 22 | Ariel Higgins-Steele | 2018 | Towards universal health coverage and sustainable financing in Afghanistan: progress and challenges | Afghanistan | UHC |
| 23 | Clarke, L | 2017 | Shocks, stresses and universal health coverage: Pathways to address resilience and health | LMIC | UHC |
| 24 | Kelsall, T | 2016 | Political settlements and pathways to universal health coverage | LMIC | UHC |
| 25 | Krajewski-Siuda | 2008 | Political analysis of the conception of the Polish National Health Fund | Poland | National health fund |
| 26 | Musango, L | 2012 | Moving from ideas to action—developing health financing systems towards universal coverage in Africa | African countries | Health financing |
| 27 | Chima A Onoka | 2013 | Promoting universal financial protection: constraints and enabling factors in scaling-up coverage with social health insurance in Nigeria | Nigeria | Formal Sector Social Health Insurance Programme |
| 28 | Vargas, JR | 2013 | Promoting universal financial protection: a policy analysis of universal health coverage in Costa Rica (1940–2000) | Costa Rica | UHC |
| 29 | Dennis Raphael | 2020 | Conceptualizing and researching health equity in Africa through a political economy of health lens—Rwanda in perspective | Rwanda | Pro-health equity policies |
| 30 | Philipa Mladovsky | 2020 | Fragmentation by design: Universal health coverage policies as governmentality in Senegal | Senegal | UHC (user fee exemption, reforming health insurance institutions that cover workers and pensioners in the civil service and private sector, expanding coverage of community-based health insurance [CBHI] schemes) |
| 31 | Rami Yassoub | 2017 | The Path Toward Universal Health Coverage: Stakeholder Acceptability of a Primary Care Health Benefits Package in Lebanon | Lebanon | Healthcare benefits package (HBP) |
| 32 | Shadi S Saleh | 2014 | The path towards universal health coverage in the Arab uprising countries Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, and Yemen | Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, and Yemen | UHC |
| 33 | Tim Kelsall | 2016 | Inclusive healthcare and the political settlement in Cambodia | Cambodia | Health Equity Fund |
| 34 | Magdalena Chiara | 2018 | Concepts and ideas concerning universal health care: results of the intergovernmental arrangement in Greater Metropolitan Buenos Aires, Argentina, from 2003 to 2011 | Argentina | Plan Nacer and Programa Remediar/Universal coverage |
| 35 | Bernardo Garza | 2015 | Increasing the Responsiveness of Health Services in Mexico's Seguro Popular: Three Policy Proposals for Voice and Power | Mexico | Public insurance (social security insurance)/seguro popular |
| 36 | Sharif A Ismail | 2018 | The rocky road to universal health coverage in Egypt: A political economy of health insurance reform from 2005–15 | Egypt | Health insurance coverage |
| 37 | Sparks, S | 2019 | Political Economy Analysis for Health Financing Reform | Global/Mexico/Turkey | Health financing reforms |
| 38 | Bayarsaikhan | 2015 | Social health insurance development in Mongolia: Opportunities and challenges in moving towards Universal Health Coverage | Mongolia | Health insurance and public financing reform |
| 39 | Frenk, J | 2006 | Comprehensive reform to improve health system performance in Mexico | Mexico | Seguro Popular (popular health insurance) |
| 40 | Leng, C | 2008 | Ownership, control, and contention: Challenges for the future of healthcare in Malaysia | Malaysia | Health financing |
| 41 | Massuda, A | 2018 | The Brazilian health system at crossroads: progress, crisis and resilience | Brazil | Health financing and healthcare coverage |
| 42 | Yu | 2015 | Universal health insurance coverage for 1.3 billion people: What accounts for China’s success? | China | UHC/UH insurance coverage |
| 43 | McIntyre, D | 2013 | Promoting universal financial protection: evidence from seven low- and middle-income countries on factors facilitating or hindering progress | Costa Rica, Georgia, India, Malawi, Nigeria, Tanzania, and Thailand | Health financing/health insurance |
| 44 | He AJ | 2017 | Towards Universal Health Coverage via Social Health Insurance in China: Systemic Fragmentation, Reform Imperatives, and Policy Alternatives | China | Universal insurance coverage |
| 45 | Viroj Tangcharoensathien | 2013 | Promoting universal financial protection: how the Thai universal coverage scheme was designed to ensure equity | Thailand | Thai Universal Coverage Scheme (UCS) |
| 46 | Dayashankar | 2019 | Policy entrepreneurs as catalysts of broad system change: the case of social health insurance adoption in India | India | Social health insurance |
| 47 | Agyepong IA | 2008 | Public social policy development and implementation: a case study of the Ghana National Health Insurance scheme | Ghana | National health insurance scheme |
| 48 | Shroff Z | 2015 | Health Insurance as a Tool of Electoral Tactical Redistribution in Tamil Nadu, India | India | National Health Insurance Scheme/social welfare programmes |
| 49 | Ishmael Wireko | 2016 | Transnational actors and health care reform: Why international organizations initially opposed, and later supported, social health insurance in Ghana | Ghana | NHIS |
| 50 | Osman | 2018 | Political economy and quality of primary health service in rural Bangladesh and the united states of America: a comparative analysis | Bangladesh | Primary healthcare (Bangladesh only) |