Last October 2014, the 53rd Directing Council of the Pan American Health Organization, including the ministers of health or their representatives, of all countries in the Americas, approved Resolution CP53.14 about the “Strategy for universal access to health and universal health coverage”(1). Health coverage is defined as “the capacity of the health system to serve the needs of the population,...

Universal Health Coverage, (UHC), has proven to be an undeniable political and very ambitious health agenda aimed at ensuring that everyone access basic quality care services irrespective of their socio-economic status geographical location. The UHC concept is upmost importance in Cameroon considering the high levels out-of-pocket expenditures fragile systems. Achieving will not only increase l...

Background The move to universal health coverage and consequently health promotion is influenced by political, socio-economic and other contextual factors in a country. Iran, as a developing country with an upper-middle national income, has developed policies to achieve universal health coverage through financial protection. This study aims to investigate barriers to develop financial protectio...

BACKGROUND The rising burden of chronic non-communicable diseases in low and middle income countries has major implications on the ability of these countries to achieve universal health coverage. In this paper we discuss the impact of cardiovascular diseases (CVD) on primary healthcare services in urban poor communities in Accra, Ghana. METHODS We review the evidence on the evolution of unive...