UHC law in practice: legal access rights to health care: introduction
Overview
The four country profiles on legal access rights to health care analyse the capacity of the laws of Germany, Japan, Kenya and Thailand to deliver universal access to health care in each jurisdiction. They provide an overview of each country’s approach to enshrine access rights in law, including statutory insurance schemes, coverage of different population groups, benefit packages (including legal mechanisms to define benefits and enforce access rights), anti-discrimination provisions (including legal complaint mechanisms), and access barriers to health care.
These country profiles are part of ongoing work by WHO’s Department of Health Governance and Financing (Health System Governance, Policy and Aid Effectiveness) to strengthen the recognition of law as an essential tool to achieve universal health coverage. This document provides an overview of the work to date as background to these country profiles and explains the methods used to develop them.
