Universal Health Coverage for Inclusive and Sustainable Development: A Synthesis of 11 Country Case Studies

Une couverture sanitaire universelle pour un développement durable inclusive: Une synthèse de 11 études de cas pays

Akiko Maeda, Edson Araujo, Cheryl Cashin, Joseph Harris, Naoki Ikegami and Michael R. Reich

No 18867 in World Bank Publications - Books from The World Bank Group

Abstract: The goals of Universal Health Coverage (UHC) are to ensure that all people can access quality health services, to safeguard all people from public health risks, and to protect all people from impoverishment due to illness, whether from out-of-pocket payments for health care or loss of income when a household member falls sick. Countries as diverse as Brazil, France, Japan, Thailand, and Turkey that have achieved UHC are showing how these programs can serve as vital mechanisms for improving the health and welfare of their citizens, and lay the foundation for economic growth and competitiveness grounded in the principles of equity and sustainability. Ensuring universal access to affordable, quality health services will be an important contribution to ending extreme poverty by 2030 and boosting shared prosperity in low income and middle-income countries (LMICs), where most of the world s poor live.

Keywords: Health Monitoring and Evaluation Law and Development-Health Law Health Systems Development and Reform Health Economics and Finance Health; Nutrition and Population-Population Policies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
ISBN: 978-1-4648-0297-3
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