Health financing for universal coverage

Health financing for universal coverage

Universal coverage (UC), or universal health coverage (UHC), is defined as providing all people with access to needed promotive, preventive, curative and rehabilitative health services, of sufficient quality to be effective, while ensuring that the use of these services does not expose the user to financial hardship.

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Impoverishment

100million people pushed into poverty because of direct health payments

World health report 2010

Access to services

48%of births attended by a skilled health worker in the African region

World health statistics 2012

Increase priority given to health

79countries devote less than 10% of general government expenditure to health

Health financing country profiles

International focus on universal coverage

WHO staff in discussion

WHO’s work in universal coverage is part of an increased international consensus on the need to accelerate progress towards universal coverage through concrete actions and reforms as underlined in the Bangkok Statement on Universal Health Coverage and the Mexico City Political Declaration on Universal Health Coverage

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