الفهرس 
Title : Design of a suitable benefit package for universal health insurance system with application to Egypt
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Abstract
This research provided an overview the major challenges facing the Egyptian social health insurance, such as economic, political, social and epidemiological challenges and called for achieving universal health coverage. Egyptian social health insurance needs a major structural and operational reform to overcome these challenges and achieve a roadmap to universal health coverage for all. One of the fundamental components of the universal health coverage is defining the health benefit packages according to recognized criteria; giving priority to services which benefit more people and reducing the burden of the amount of out of pocket payments. This research focused on reforming the health insurance benefit packages delivery through prioritizing areas related to service delivery, the quality of health care services and improving the health services for the most disadvantages group. To achieve that, SPSS program was used and analyzed the data collected through different statistical methods and hepatitis virus C (HCV) was quantified by disability adjusted life years (DALY) measure. The results of this research were emerged number of the strategies and criteria for health care service delivery reform. Providing an integrated package of family health services mapped to the growing burden of disease, the separation of purchasing of healthcare services from service provision to enhance accountability in the social health insurance system, especially for disadvantaged groups, Increasing quality of healthcare, a shift toward more proactive approach needed for preventive, chronic diseases management, improving the drug supply and ensuring equitable distribution of responsive health workforce through performance based incentives and accreditation are the top priority for health care benefit package delivery reform