Preferred-Provider Organizations (PPOs) are a variant of health service coverage that is largely used in the western world. They are usually privately run organizations that group individuals under a list of preferred providers and can therefore provide better prices for its members with the option of using services outside of […]
In Egypt, there is no doubt that advances in medicine have given us plenty of options to improve general health outcomes, however, the gap between physicians and patients remains noticeably wide. Individuals receiving treatment, as well as their families, are excluded from making decisions relevant to the clinical management of […]
Photo credit: William Campbell/Corbis Among the first things that come to mind when thinking of Rwanda is probably the 1994 genocide that destroyed much of the country’s socio-economic and health infrastructures, the scarce resources and overall intense poverty. It is one of the Sub-Saharan African countries that are rarely mentioned, […]
