Universal health coverage (UHC)—the availability of quality, aff ordable health services for all when needed without fi nancial impoverishment—can be a vehicle for improving equity, health outcomes, and fi nancial wellbeing. It can also contribute to economic development. In its Global Health 2035 report, the Lancet Commission on Investing in Health (CIH) set forth an ambitious investment frame...

The recent UN General Assembly resolution calling for universal health coverage (UHC) was testimony to the continuing high-level political commitment to achievement of global health goals—an achievement that has the potential to transform health systems, especially for the poorest people. Fulfi lment of this potential, however, requires a clear defi nition of the term UHC otherwise it could suf...

Background As the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) gears toward full regional integration by 2015, the cross-border mobility of workers and citizens at large is expected to further intensify in the coming years. While ASEAN member countries have already signed the Declaration on the Protection and Promotion of the Rights of Migrant Workers, the health rights of migrants still nee...

INTRODUCTION Universal Health Coverage (UHC), referring to access to healthcare without financial burden, has received renewed attention in global health spheres. UHC is a potential goal in the post-2015 development agenda. Monitoring of progress towards achieving UHC is thus critical at both country and global level, and a monitoring framework for UHC was proposed by a joint WHO/World Bank dis...

UHC is a priority topic in global health. It is one of the targets in the sustainable development goals, and considered the main approach that cuts across all program areas and SDG health targets. Two previous meetings have been held at the Bellagio Center (Measurement of trends and equity in coverage of health interventions in the context of universal health coverage, September 17-21 2012, and...

BACKGROUND There is little knowledge concerning unfavorable health conditions (UHC) associated with high level of social phobia/anxiety symptoms (SPAS) in the elderly. AIMS This cross-sectional community-based study examines five categories of UHC related to high SPAS in individuals aged 75/76 years compared with controls with lower SPAS. METHODS The study was based on data from the Oslo He...

Amid the global push for Universal Health Coverage (UHC), the agenda is being set for India's health care. In the absence of a constitutional mandate, a national policy and citizen-led political demand for UHC, there exist specific risks in rushing toward its implementation in India. As the debate of UHC continues, the health-care delivery system in India is at cross roads. UHC in India could t...

The Japan National Committee for the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC) and UICC-Asia Regional Office (ARO) organized a Roundtable Discussion as part of the official program of the UICC World Cancer Congress 2014 in Melbourne, Australia. The theme for the Roundtable Discussion was - Looking Toward the Realization of Universal Health Care (UHC) for Cancer in Asia - and it was held on ...

Universal Health Coverage (UHC) is gaining in importance across the world. WHO defines UHC as ‘‘ensuring that all people can use the promotive, preventive, curative, rehabilitative and palliative health services they need, of sufficient quality to be effective, while also ensuring that the use of these services does not expose the user to financial hardship’’ [1]. While many countries have achi...