BMJ Series: Universal Health Coverage
2019
This BMJ series, in partnership with the Harvard Global Health Institute, is a compilation of articles explaining and exploring the best ways to achieve universal health coverage. Universal health coverage (UHC), as defined by the researchers, is the notion that people should have access to healthcare services whether or not they are able to pay while also not plunging people into debt. While the primary focus is healthcare coverage, it is also crucial to have an underlying structure in place to provide healthcare services, as well as the necessary resources to make UHC effective. From examining the assumptions surrounding healthcare delivery to learning how to overcome distrust in the epicenter of the Ebola outbreak, this series highlights the importance of UHC – as well as what policymakers can do to implement it.
Series articles include:
- Rethinking Assumptions About Healthcare Delivery: Implications for Universal Health Coverage
- Next Steps Towards Universal Health Coverage: Call for Global Leadership
- Climate Change Threatens the Achievement of Effective Universal Health Coverage
- Achieving Universal Health Coverage for Mental Disorders
- Overcoming Distrust to Deliver Universal Health Coverage: Lessons from Ebola
- Motivating Provision of High Quality Care: It is Not All About the Money
- How Moves Towards Universal Health Coverage Could Encourage Poor Quality Drugs: An Essay by Elizabeth Pisani
BMJ Series: Universal Health Coverage
Source:
Universal Health Coverage. The BMJ, Harvard Global Health Institute 2019. https://www.bmj.com/universal-health-coverage.