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Table 2 List of included studies

From: Political economy analysis of universal health coverage and health financing reforms in low- and middle-income countries: the role of stakeholder engagement in the research process

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)