Publication: Business Unusual: Accelerating Progress Towards Universal Health Coverage
Date
2018-04
ISSN
Published
2018-04
Author(s)
World Bank
Abstract
At present rates, the global 2030
Universal Health Coverage (UHC) targets under the United
Nations Sustainable Development Goals will not be met.
Urgent action is needed to speed progress in the two
dimensions of UHC, health service coverage and financial
protection, and to ensure that no one is left behind. What
can be done? First, countries can learn from past
experience. This report identifies a set of factors common
among countries that made outstanding progress on selected
service coverage and financial protection indicators between
2000 and 2015. By adapting proven approaches to their own
settings, and by addressing stubborn implementation
bottlenecks, countries can accelerate progress towards UHC.
Second, even as they benefit from models of success,
countries must prepare to manage deeper health system
transformation now on the horizon. Spurred by economic,
technological, demographic, and epidemiologic forces, these
transformations will reshape the landscape in which
countries pursue their 2030 UHC goals, creating new risks
but also opportunities.
Citation
“World Bank. 2018. Business Unusual; Business Unusual : Accelerating Progress Towards Universal Health Coverage. © World Bank, Washington, DC. http://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/29730?CID=HNP_TT_Health_EN_EXT_bu-healthforall License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.”