Ertila Druga
@ertiladruga.bsky.social
Political Scientist | Policy Knowledge Communicator & Analyst | Political Science 4 Health | Global Health Hub Germany | Frontiers in Public Health |
"Health is a mirror of democracy"
Getting Better | Ertila Druga MD MBA PhD
Why do some societies manage to make people healthier and more equal while others fail?
The open-access book “Getting Better: The Policy and Politics of Reducing Health Inequalities” (Bambra, Lynch &...
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October 17, 2025 at 8:32 AM
"Health is a mirror of democracy"
This research revisits the World Bank's lesser-known but significant engagement with the commodity problem in the 1960s, offering key insights into how international organisations navigate competing priorities and internal transformations.
“The most important research project”: the World Bank and the commodity problem of international development in the 1960s
This article reconstructs the brief but intense involvement of the World Bank with the commodity problem in the 1960s. It argues that the rise of economic expertise at the Bank brought the institut...
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December 17, 2024 at 5:29 PM
This research revisits the World Bank's lesser-known but significant engagement with the commodity problem in the 1960s, offering key insights into how international organisations navigate competing priorities and internal transformations.
Worth a read on the Universal Health Coverage Day.
How LMICs can be well advised "to ensure that their reforms benefit from the most
current understanding of how to effectively finance universal health coverage."
How LMICs can be well advised "to ensure that their reforms benefit from the most
current understanding of how to effectively finance universal health coverage."
The Case Against Labor-Tax-Financed Social Health Insurance For Low-And Low-Middle-Income Countries: A summary of recent research into labor-tax financing of social health insurance in low-and low-mi...
AS Yazbeck, WD Savedoff, WC Hsiao, J Kutzin, A Soucat, A Tandon, A Wagstaff, W Chi-Man Yip, Health Affairs, 2020 - Cited by 74
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December 12, 2024 at 5:29 PM
Worth a read on the Universal Health Coverage Day.
How LMICs can be well advised "to ensure that their reforms benefit from the most
current understanding of how to effectively finance universal health coverage."
How LMICs can be well advised "to ensure that their reforms benefit from the most
current understanding of how to effectively finance universal health coverage."
The superiority of tax-based systems vs. social & private healthcare financing in reducing #incomeinequalities
TBS "exhibit high progressivity as direct taxes contribute to a favourable redistribution towards low-income households & usually offset indirect taxes, which often tend to be regressive"
TBS "exhibit high progressivity as direct taxes contribute to a favourable redistribution towards low-income households & usually offset indirect taxes, which often tend to be regressive"
Equity in healthcare financing: a review of evidence
This review summarises empirical studies on the progressivity and redistributive effects of healthcare financing mechanisms. The evidence varies signi…
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December 7, 2024 at 6:44 AM
The superiority of tax-based systems vs. social & private healthcare financing in reducing #incomeinequalities
TBS "exhibit high progressivity as direct taxes contribute to a favourable redistribution towards low-income households & usually offset indirect taxes, which often tend to be regressive"
TBS "exhibit high progressivity as direct taxes contribute to a favourable redistribution towards low-income households & usually offset indirect taxes, which often tend to be regressive"
Reading on the #IMF website,
"After all, no country, regardless of income level, has achieved UHC without major #increases in #publicspending. On the domestic side, countries must rely #progressively more on their own resources, which are more stable."
#IO #discourse #position #welfarestate
"After all, no country, regardless of income level, has achieved UHC without major #increases in #publicspending. On the domestic side, countries must rely #progressively more on their own resources, which are more stable."
#IO #discourse #position #welfarestate
How to Heal Health Financing
International initiatives must complement, not duplicate, national health strategies
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December 6, 2024 at 6:58 AM
Reading on the #IMF website,
"After all, no country, regardless of income level, has achieved UHC without major #increases in #publicspending. On the domestic side, countries must rely #progressively more on their own resources, which are more stable."
#IO #discourse #position #welfarestate
"After all, no country, regardless of income level, has achieved UHC without major #increases in #publicspending. On the domestic side, countries must rely #progressively more on their own resources, which are more stable."
#IO #discourse #position #welfarestate
December 4, 2024 at 6:22 PM
Autumn colours at
Arboretum Ellerhoop
Arboretum Ellerhoop
November 17, 2024 at 10:48 AM
Autumn colours at
Arboretum Ellerhoop
Arboretum Ellerhoop