A concise, health service coverage index for monitoring progress towards universal health coverage

A concise, health service coverage index for monitoring progress towards universal health coverage

BACKGROUND There is a growing international commitment to universal health coverage (UHC), but limited means to determine progress towards that goal. We developed a practical index for capturing health service coverage - a critical dimension of UHC -- that was more inclusive than previous methods. METHODS Our data included publicly-available, indicators reflecting health service delivery, inf...

Effective Coverage as a New Metric for Monitoring Progress towards Universal Health Coverage

Monitoring and Evaluating Progress towards Universal Health Coverage in Brazil

1 Instituto de Saúde Coletiva, Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Brazil, 2 National Institute in Science, Technology and Innovation in Health (CITECS), Salvador, Brazil, 3 Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada, Brası́lia, Brazil, 4 Federal University of Santa Catarina, Floranopólis, Brazil, 5 Secretaria de Vigilância a Saúde, Ministry of Health, Brası́lia, Brazil, 6 Instituto de Comunicaç...

Monitoring and Evaluating Progress towards Universal Health Coverage in Singapore

1 Policy Research and Economics Office, Ministry of Health, Singapore, 2 Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore, Singapore, 3 Health Services & Outcomes Research, National Healthcare Group, Singapore, 4 Health Services & Systems Research, Duke-National University of Singapore, Singapore, 5 Centre for Biomedical Ethics, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National U...

Monitoring and Evaluating Progress towards Universal Health Coverage in Ethiopia

This country case study is part of the Universal Health Coverage Collection. The World Health Organization defines universal health coverage (UHC) as a situation in which all people who need health services receive them, without incurring financial hardship [1]. UHC is currently perceived as a crucial component of sustainable development and listed as one of the possible goals of the post-2015 ...