ArticleHealth and human rights2019
The Right(s) Road to Universal Health Coverage.
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- Health insurance coverage in Mexico: progress, inequalities and remaining challenges towards UHC2030.Health research policy and systems · 2025Article
- Regulation of artificial intelligence in Uganda's healthcare: exploring an appropriate regulatory approach and framework to deliver universal health coverage.International journal for equity in health · 2025Article
- Universal health coverage evolution, ongoing trend, and future challenge: A conceptual and historical policy review.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
- Successes and challenges of health systems governance towards universal health coverage and global health security: a narrative review and synthesis of the literature.Health research policy and systems · 2022Review
- Implementation research approaches to promoting universal health coverage in Africa: a scoping review.BMC health services research · 2021Article
- Preparing international cooperation on pandemic prevention for the Anthropocene.BMJ global health · 2021Article
- Multistakeholder Participation in Disaster Management-The Case of the COVID-19 Pandemic.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Review
- Evaluating health systems' efficiency towards universal health coverage: A data envelopment analysis.Inquiry : a journal of medical care organization, provision and financingArticle
- COVID-19 Pandemic: An Opportunity for Universal Health Coverage.Frontiers in public healthArticle
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Abstract
The political momentum around universal health coverage (UHC) provides a welcome opportunity to scale up efforts to dismantle barriers to accessing health services and to create enabling environments for people to thrive and be healthy. However, UHC lacks sufficient clarity, both conceptually and operationally, to generate the societal transformation required to ensure its successful implementation in countries. This article argues that both the messaging and the monitoring and implementation guidance around UHC are ambiguous and flawed from a human rights perspective. To leverage the reforms necessary to achieve UHC, human rights norms and principles need to signpost the direction ahead, and human rights mechanisms need to be involved to enhance the accountability of those United Nations member states that choose to "take a wrong turn." The article argues that a human rights-based approach to programming offers a practical methodological framework for designing and implementing UHC at the national level. It concludes by illustrating five key areas in which it is critical to invoke human rights as the foundation for UHC and for which consistent, authoritative, and practical guidance is needed to support countries in getting onto the right(s) road to UHC.
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