Overprescription of short‐acting β2‐agonists among patients with asthma in Saudi Arabia: Results from the SABINA III cohort study by Hamdan Al‐Jahdali, Siraj Wali, Amr S. Albanna, Abeer Al Harbi, Riyad Allehebi, Abdulmajed Arwadi, Tarek Dahan, Mohamed Fattouh, Ezzat Hamza, Maarten Beekman

“…Abstract Despite near‐universal health care and timely updates to treatment guidelines in Saudi Arabia, asthma control remains suboptimal, warranting deeper exploration of its management practices. …”
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Military healthcare system mitigates racial disparities for severe maternal morbidity from preeclampsiaAJOG Global Reports at a Glance by Kathleen Lundeberg, DO, Rachel Tindal, MD, Patrizia C. Grob, DO, Jameaka Hamilton, MD, Veronica M. Gonzalez-Brown, MD, Erin Keyser, MD

“…OBJECTIVE: We hypothesize that the Military healthcare system models universal health care access seen in other developed countries and should equalize these rates. …”
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Separating Birth from Community: Colonialism and Historical Institutionalism in Indigenous Pregnancy Evacuation Policies by Sabrina Lee, Angela Mashford-Pringle

“…Canada is a geographically large country with remote communities, often inhabited by Indigenous peoples, which provides universal health care to communities spanning from the Pacific to Atlantic oceans. …”
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A qualitative analysis of the implementation of the water, sanitation, and hygiene in schools program in the Philippines using the One Health lens by Soledad Natalia M. Dalisay, Carlo R. Lumangaya, Lorenzo Maria C. de Guzman, Robert Neil F. Leong, Taggart G. Siao, Juan Alfonso Leonardia, Chiqui de Verya, Vicente Y. Belizario Jr

“…Implementing the Universal Health Care Act and developing and using existing mechanisms for coordination between sectors, such as Healthy Learning Institutions, provide opportunities for aligning programs with the government health agenda.…”
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Investigating rapid diagnostic testing in Kenya’s health system, 2018–2020: validating non-reporting in routine data using a health facility service assessment survey by Angela K Moturi, Bibian N Robert, Felix Bahati, Peter M Macharia, Emelda A Okiro

“…Abstract Background Understanding the availability of rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) is essential for attaining universal health care and reducing health inequalities. Although routine data helps measure RDT coverage and health access gaps, many healthcare facilities fail to report their monthly diagnostic test data to routine health systems, impacting routine data quality. …”
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Socioeconomic differences in health-care use and outcomes for stroke and ischaemic heart disease in China during 2009-16: a prospective cohort study of 0·5 million adults. by Levy, M, Chen, Y, Clarke, R, Bennett, D, Tan, Y, Guo, Y, Bian, Z, Lv, J, Yu, C, Li, L, Yip, W, Chen, Z, Mihaylova, B, China Kadoorie Biobank Collaborative Group

“…<p><strong>Background:</strong>&nbsp;China initiated major health-care reforms in 2009 aiming to provide universal health care for all by 2020. However, little is known about trends in health-care use and health outcomes across different socioeconomic groups in the past decade.…”

Diameter Reduction Determined Through Carotid Ultrasound Associated With Cardiovascular and All‐Cause Mortality: A Single‐Center Experience of 38 201 Consecutive Patients in Taiwan... by Pei‐Chun Chen, Fu‐Yu Lin, Han‐Chun Huang, Hsiu‐Yin Chiang, Shih‐Ni Chang, Pei‐Shan Chen, Yuh‐Cherng Guo, Pei‐Shan Liao, Yu‐Chyn Wei, Chin‐Chi Kuo

“…We investigated whether a reduction in diameter of different carotid anatomical segments is associated with cardiovascular and all‐cause mortality in a hospital‐based cohort with universal health care. Methods and Results We conducted a retrospective cohort study of 38 201 patients who underwent carotid duplex ultrasound at a medical center in Taiwan. …”
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Perceptions of COVID-19 and the Use of Health Information Technology Among People Who Are Uninsured: Multimethod Survey Study by Khushi S Patel, Cynthia F Corbett, Elizabeth M Combs, Sara B Donevant, Margaret J Selph, Lynette M Gibson, Robin M Dawson, Amit P Sheth, Ronda G Hughes

“…These populations may lack the knowledge of appropriate infection precautions or have reduced access to care during illness, particularly in countries without universal health care. ObjectiveWe aimed to explore the perceptions and experiences of COVID-19, including symptoms and risk factors among uninsured individuals seeking care at a free medical clinic, and to obtain respondents’ perceptions of and suggestions for adapting a mobile health (mHealth) app to an uninsured population known to have low health literacy. …”
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Performing up to Nordic principles? Geographic and socioeconomic equity in ambulatory care sensitive conditions among older adults in capital areas of Denmark, Finland and Sweden i... by Markku Satokangas, Martti Arffman, Janne Agerholm, Karsten Thielen, Charlotte Ørsted Hougaard, Ingelise Andersen, Bo Burström, Ilmo Keskimäki

“…Abstract Background Denmark, Finland and Sweden pursue equity in health for their citizens through universal health care. However, it is unclear if these services reach the older adult population equally across different socioeconomic positions or living areas. …”
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Proton Pump Inhibitors Use in Kidney Transplant Recipients: A Population-Based Study by James Kiberd, Robert R. Quinn, Pietro Ravani, Krista L. Lentine, Alix Clarke, Rachel Jeong, Labib Faruque, Ngan N. Lam

“…Limitations: Our kidney transplant recipients have access to universal health care coverage which may limit generalizability. …”
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Access to emergency hospital care provided by the public sector in sub-Saharan Africa in 2015: a geocoded inventory and spatial analysis by Ouma, PO, Maina, J, Thuranira, PN, Macharia, PM, Alegana, VA, English, M, Okiro, EA, Snow, RW

“…International benchmarks for access to emergency hospital care have been established to guide ambitions for universal health care by 2030. However, no Pan-African database of where hospitals are located exists; therefore, we aimed to complete a geocoded inventory of hospital services in Africa in relation to how populations might access these services in 2015, with focus on women of child bearing age.…”

The Burden of Health-Related Out-of-Pocket Cancer Costs in Canada: A Case-Control Study Using Linked Data by Beverley M. Essue, Claire de Oliveira, Tracey Bushnik, Sharon Fung, Jeremiah Hwee, Zhuolu Sun, Elba Gomez Navas, Jean Hai Ein Yong, Rochelle Garner

“…Interpretation: Within a universal health care system, it is still relevant to monitor health-related out-of-pocket spending that is not covered by existing insurance mechanisms; however, this is not routinely assessed in Canada. …”
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Predictors of advanced disease and late presentation in new HIV diagnoses reported to the surveillance system in Spain by Jesús Oliva, Mercedes Díez, Silvia Galindo, Carlos Cevallos, Ana Izquierdo, Javier Cereijo, Arantxa Arrillaga, Antonio Nicolau, Ana Fernández, Mara Álvarez, Jesús Castilla, Eva Martínez, Irene López, Nuria Vivés

“…Conclusions: Despite universal health care coverage in Spain, men, immigrants and people infected through drug use or heterosexual contact seem to be experiencing difficulties in gaining timely access to HIV care.…”
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The effect of catchment based mentorship on quality of maternal and newborn care in primary health care facilities in Tigray Region, Northern Ethiopia: A controlled quasi-experimen... by Haftom Gebrehiwot Weldearegay, Alemayehu Bayray Kahsay, Hagos Godefay, Pammla Petrucka, Araya Abrha Medhanyie

“…This is seen as a necessary step to achieve the effective quality universal health care required to meet the health-related Sustainable Development Goals. …”
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Determinants of effective treatment coverage for posttraumatic stress disorder: findings from the World Mental Health Surveys by Dan J. Stein, Alan E. Kazdin, Richard J. Munthali, Irving Hwang, Meredith G. Harris, Jordi Alonso, Laura Helena Andrade, Ronny Bruffaerts, Graça Cardoso, Stephanie Chardoul, Giovanni de Girolamo, Silvia Florescu, Oye Gureje, Josep Maria Haro, Aimee N. Karam, Elie G. Karam, Viviane Kovess-Masfety, Sing Lee, Maria Elena Medina-Mora, Fernando Navarro-Mateu, José Posada-Villa, Juan Carlos Stagnaro, Margreet ten Have, Nancy A. Sampson, Ronald C. Kessler, Daniel V. Vigo, on behalf of the WHO World Mental Health Survey Collaborators

“…Conclusion There is a clear need to improve pharmacotherapy and psychotherapy coverage for PTSD, particularly in those with mild symptoms, and especially in LMICs. Universal health care insurance can be expected to increase effective treatment coverage and therefore improve outcomes.…”
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Association of socioeconomic deprivation with outcomes in critically ill adult patients: an observational prospective multicenter cohort study by Morgan Benaïs, Matthieu Duprey, Laura Federici, Michel Arnaout, Pierre Mora, Marc Amouretti, Irma Bourgeon-Ghittori, Stéphane Gaudry, Pierre Garçon, Danielle Reuter, Guillaume Geri, Bruno Megarbane, Jordane Lebut, Armand Mekontso-Dessap, Jean-Damien Ricard, Daniel da Silva, Etienne de Montmollin

“…Conclusions In a universal health care system, the most deprived socioeconomic phenotypes were not associated with increased 180-day mortality. …”
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High-Throughput Computing to Automate Population-Based Studies to Detect the 30-Day Risk of Adverse Outcomes After New Outpatient Medication Use in Older Adults with Chronic Kidney... by Sheikh S. Abdullah, Neda Rostamzadeh, Flory T. Muanda, Eric McArthur, Matthew A. Weir, Jessica M. Sontrop, Richard B. Kim, Sedig Kamran, Amit X. Garg

“…The source population for these studies will be residents of Ontario aged 66 years or older who filled at least one outpatient prescription through the Ontario Drug Benefit (ODB) program during the study period (all residents have universal health care, and those aged 65+ have universal prescription drug coverage through the ODB). …”
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Sir William Petty and some aspects of C17 natural philosophy by Sharp, L

“…Research into disease would only process through empirical means, and universal health care was the sole means of providing a sufficient number of cases from which to gather data. …”

The United States Healthcare System by Jacob Pollock

“…US citizens are provided the inability to see reality for what it is, and instead encouraged to live by a means of pseudo-reality as described by Debord.[2] As a result, many US institutions, including the prison system and the healthcare system, have become platforms of masked discriminatory and racist practices within today’s world of “colorblindness.” The right to universal health care represents yet another opportunity for US institutions to deploy covert and underlying racist and discriminatory tactics, and continues to remain largely unacknowledged by non-minority citizens of the US, contributing to significantly higher rates of untreated health concerns and concomitant higher death rates in US minority populations. …”
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Measures of Emergency Department Crowding, a Systematic Review. How to Make Sense of a Long List by Badr S, Nyce A, Awan T, Cortes D, Mowdawalla C, Rachoin JS

“…Samer Badr,1,2 Andrew Nyce,3,4 Taha Awan,5 Dennise Cortes,5 Cyrus Mowdawalla,5 Jean-Sebastien Rachoin1,2,6 1Division of Hospital Medicine, Cooper University Health Care, Camden, NJ, USA; 2Department of Medicine, Cooper Medical School of Rowan University, Camden, NJ, USA; 3Department of Emergency Medicine, Cooper University Health Care, Camden, NJ, USA; 4Department of Emergency Medicine, Cooper Medical School of Rowan University, Camden, NJ, USA; 5Department of Medical Education, Cooper Medical School of Rowan University, Camden, NJ, USA; 6Division of Critical Care, Cooper University Health Care, Camden, NJ, USACorrespondence: Samer BadrDivision of Hospital Medicine, Cooper University Health Care, One Cooper Plaza, Dorrance Suite 222, Camden, NJ, 08103, USATel +1 856-342-3150Fax +1 856-968-8418Email badr-samer@cooperhealth.eduAbstract: Emergency department (ED) crowding, a common and serious phenomenon in many countries, lacks standardized definition and measurement methods. …”
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