Health workforce benchmarks for universal health coverage and sustainable development

Health workforce benchmarks for universal health coverage and sustainable development.

Universal health coverage (UHC) includes the guarantee that everyone will be protected over the entire life-cycle by a defined set of essential health services fulfilling four interrelated criteria, as set out in Social Protection Floors Recommendation, 2012 (202) of the International Labour Organization (ILO): availability, accessibility, acceptability and quality.1 Insofar as it furthers heal...

Strengthening health systems for universal health coverage and sustainable development

Health workforce contributions to health system development: a platform for universal health coverage.

PROBLEM In the 1970s, Thailand was a low-income country with poor health indicators and low health service coverage. The local health infrastructure was especially weak. APPROACH In the 1980s, measures were initiated to reduce geographical barriers to health service access, improve the health infrastructure at the district level, make essential medicines more widely available and develop a co...

Universal Health Coverage: Everyone, Everywhere

سخن سردبیر Editorial مجله دانشگاه علوم پزشکی رفسنجان دوره هفدهم، خرداد 1398، 208-207       «پوشش همگانی بهداشت: هرکسی، هرجا»   Universal Health Coverage: Everyone, Everywhere   محسن رضائیان[1]   M. Rezaeian   سازمان جهانی بهداشت World Health Organization (WHO)  هر ساله  هفتم آوریل (مصادف با هجدهم فروردین) را به عنوان روز جهانی بهداشت گرامی داشته و شعاری را برای آن انتخاب می‌کند. ...

Universal health coverage and the health Sustainable Development Goal: achievements and challenges for Sri Lanka.

With state-funded health care that is free at the point of delivery, a sound primary health-care policy and widespread health-care services, Sri Lanka seems a good example of universal health coverage. Yet, health transition and disparities in provision and financing threaten this situation. Sri Lanka did well on the Millennium Development Goal health indicators, but the Sustainable Development...