Moving towards universal health coverage: engaging non-state providers

This editorial provides an overview of the special issue “Moving towards UHC: engaging non-state providers”. It begins by describing the rationale underlying the Alliance’s choice of a research program addressing issues of non-state providers and briefly discusses the research process this entailed. This is followed by a summary of the findings and key messages of each of the eight articles included in the issue. The editorial concludes with a series of reflections regarding lessons learnt about the engagement of non-state providers, methodological challenges, areas for future research as well as the contribution of the research program towards efforts to build capacity and strengthen health systems towards universal health coverage.

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Shroff ZC, Rao KD, Bennett S, Paina L, Ingabire M, Ghaffar A. Moving towards universal health coverage: engaging non-state providers. International Journal for Equity in Health. 2018;17(135). doi:10.1186/s12939-018-0844-7