ReviewBMJ global health2020
Universal access to essential health information: accelerating progress towards universal health coverage and other SDG health targets.
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19 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
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- Comparison of health information systems capacity among China and Association of Southeast Asian Nations countries based on the World Health Organization SCORE assessment tool.Journal of global health · 2025Article
- Advancing Health Through Sustainable Development Goals-Saudi Arabia's Mid-Journey Progress and Insights.Journal of epidemiology and global health · 2025Review
- "Your Life, Your Health: Tips and Information for Health and Well-Being": Development of a World Health Organization Digital Resource to Support Universal Access to Trustworthy Health Information.JMIR formative research · 2025Article
- The Impact of Health Information System Interventions on Maternal and Child Health Service Utilizations in Ethiopia: A Quasi-Experimental Study.Global health, science and practice · 2024Article
- Making Metadata Machine-Readable as the First Step to Providing Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable Population Health Data: Framework Development and Implementation Study.Online journal of public health informatics · 2024Article
- Measuring progress on health and well-being in the Eastern Mediterranean Region via voluntary national reviews, 2016-2021: What does the data reveal?PLOS global public health · 2024Article
- Litigation in access to universal health coverage for children and adolescents in Brazil.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
- Remote Symptom Monitoring to Enhance the Delivery of Palliative Cancer Care in Low-Resource Settings: Emerging Approaches from Africa.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- Fixing the Leaky Pipe: How to Improve the Uptake of Patient-Reported Outcomes-Based Prognostic and Predictive Models in Cancer Clinical Practice.JCO clinical cancer informatics · 2023Article
- The Experiences of Community Health Workers in Preventing Noncommunicable Diseases in an Urban Area, the Philippines: A Qualitative Study.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Universal health information is essential for universal health coverage.Family medicine and community health · 2023Article
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- 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
- Adolescents' experiences of the information they received about the coronavirus (Covid-19) in Norway: a cross-sectional study.Child and adolescent psychiatry and mental health · 2021Article
- Going beyond access to health information: a pandemic call to action.BMJ global health · 2021Article
- Global community perception of 'surgical care' as a public health issue: a cross sectional survey.BMC public health · 2021Article
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Abstract
The information that people need to protect and manage their own health and the health of those for whom they are responsible is a fundamental element of an effective people-centred healthcare system. Achieving universal health coverage (UHC) requires universal access to essential health information. While it was recently recognised by the World Medical Association, universal access to essential health information is not yet reflected in official monitoring of progress on UHC for the sustainable development goals (SDGs). In this paper, we outline key features that characterise universal access to essential health information and indicate how it is increasingly achievable. We highlight the growing evidence of the impact of wider access to practical and actionable information on health for the public, carers and frontline health workers and provide illustrative, evidence-based, examples of how increasing access to essential health information can accelerate the achievement of UHC and other health targets of the SDGs. The paper ends with an assessment of reasons why universal access to essential health information has not yet been achieved, and an associated call to action to key stakeholders-such as governments, multilaterals, funding bodies, policy-makers, health professionals and knowledge intermediaries-to explicitly recognise the foundational role of universal access to essential health information for achieving UHC and the rest of the health SDGs, to include it in the relevant SDG target and associated monitoring indicators, and to incorporate actions in their own policies and programmes to promote and enable this access.
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