WHO has estimated that about 100 million people are driven below the poverty line every year because of out-of-pocket payments for health services. Universal Health Coverage (UHC) is a strategy to ensure that all people can use health services of sufficient quality to be effective, while the use of these services does not expose the user to financial hardship. UHC receives increasing global attention, strongly promoted by the WHO, and the strategy is a cornerstone of the global post 2015-agenda for health. In this video lesson we will discuss three central questions for achieving UHC: How to secure adequate financing for health, how to protect the poor from financial consequences of ill health, and how to encourage optimum use of resources.
- Subject:
- Applied Science
- Health, Medicine and Nursing
- Material Type:
- Lecture
- Provider:
- University of Copenhagen
- Provider Set:
- An Introduction to Global Health
- Author:
- Long Term M&E Adviser Andreas Bjerrum
- Date Added:
- 01/07/2013