ReviewNature medicine2021
Toward universal health coverage in the post-COVID-19 era.
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39 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
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- Revolutionizing Healthcare in Iran: The Journey of Universal Health Coverage-Successes, Challenges, and the Road Ahead!Iranian journal of public health · 2025Article
- Developing a Latin American Delphi Consensus on Vaccination for Respiratory Diseases in Older Adults.Annals of geriatric medicine and research · 2025Article
- Strengthening primary health care in Ethiopia: A scoping review of successes, challenges, and pathways towards universal health coverage using the WHO monitoring framework.PLOS global public health · 2025Article
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- On the epistemology of resilience in public health: a novel perspective in a changing world.Frontiers in health services · 2024Article
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- Strategies for improving the financing of family medicine program: Evidence from Iran.Health science reports · 2024Article
- Investing in school systems: conceptualising returns on investment across the health, education and social protection sectors.BMJ global health · 2023Article
- Advancing an individual-community health nexus: Survey, visual, and narrative meanings of mental and physical health for Arab emerging adults.SSM. Mental health · 2023Article
- Criteria for the procedural fairness of health financing decisions: a scoping review.Health policy and planning · 2023Article
- The use of cost-effectiveness analysis for health benefit package design - should countries follow a sectoral, incremental or hybrid approach?Cost effectiveness and resource allocation : C/E · 2023Article
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- Economic evaluations of non-communicable diseases conducted in Sub-Saharan Africa: a critical review of data sources.Cost effectiveness and resource allocation : C/E · 2023Article
- Distributional impact of infectious disease interventions in the Ethiopian Essential Health Service Package: a modelling study.BMJ open · 2023Article
- Building implementable packages for universal health coverage.BMJ global health · 2023Article
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Abstract
All countries worldwide have signed up to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and have committed to the objective of achieving 'universal health coverage, including financial risk protection, access to quality essential health-care services and access to safe, effective, quality and affordable essential medicines and vaccines for all'. During the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond, advancement toward universal health coverage (UHC) will become more difficult for many countries, demonstrating that locally led priority setting is urgently needed to provide health services with appropriate financial protection to all. Because resources are limited and no national constituency can provide an unlimited number of services to their whole population in a sustainable manner, rationing and setting priorities for the selection of interventions to be included in a defined package of services is critical. In this Perspective, we discuss how packages of essential health services can be developed in resource-constrained settings, and detail how experts and the public can decide on principles and criteria, use a comprehensive array of analytical methods and choose which services to be provided free of charge. We illustrate these main steps while drawing on a recently conducted exercise of revising the national essential health services package in Ethiopia, which we compare with examples from other countries that have defined their essential benefits packages. This Perspective also provides recommendations for other low- and middle-income countries on their pathway to UHC.
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