Access to care and financial protection for all
Access to care and financial protection for all
Most societies support the view that everyone, mothers and children in particular, should be able to get the health care they need, when they need it. In principle, exclusion on the basis of age, sex, income, culture or location is rejected throughout the world. This concern for equity is the basis for the push towards universal coverage. Universal coverage — access to care and financial protection for all mothers and children as well as for the whole population — is a condition for improving health; it also corresponds to what populations, across the world, expect their governments to guarantee. Universal coverage is the key to improved equity in health; it carries increasing popular support in most countries, but has particular support where mothers and children are concerned. Progress towards universal coverage is therefore as much a political question as a strategy to improve the health of mothers and children.
World Health Organization
Matthews, Zoë
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Van Lerberghe, Wim
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World Health Organization
2005
Matthews, Zoë
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Van Lerberghe, Wim
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Matthews, Zoë
,
Van Lerberghe, Wim
(ed.)
,
World Health Organization
(2005)
Access to care and financial protection for all
(The World Health Report 2005: Make every mother and child count)
Geneva, Switzerland.
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Abstract
Most societies support the view that everyone, mothers and children in particular, should be able to get the health care they need, when they need it. In principle, exclusion on the basis of age, sex, income, culture or location is rejected throughout the world. This concern for equity is the basis for the push towards universal coverage. Universal coverage — access to care and financial protection for all mothers and children as well as for the whole population — is a condition for improving health; it also corresponds to what populations, across the world, expect their governments to guarantee. Universal coverage is the key to improved equity in health; it carries increasing popular support in most countries, but has particular support where mothers and children are concerned. Progress towards universal coverage is therefore as much a political question as a strategy to improve the health of mothers and children.
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Published date: 2005
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Policy Brief 3
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Local EPrints ID: 40949
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/40949
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Date deposited: 13 Jul 2006
Last modified: 16 Mar 2024 02:47
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Wim Van Lerberghe
Corporate Author: World Health Organization
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