Strengthening health systems for universal health coverage and sustainable development
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Universal health coverage, health systems strengthening, and the World Bank
T he sustainable development goals (SDGs) formally promote universal health coverage as a key objective for the global health community. This focus on universal health coverage arose both from a desire to maintain the health gains achieved by the millennium development goals and from criticism that those goals were short term in nature and narrowly focused on disease specific approaches. 2 On 1...
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