Universal Health Coverage and public health: a truly sustainable approach

Universal Health Coverage: Everyone, Everywhere

سخن سردبیر Editorial مجله دانشگاه علوم پزشکی رفسنجان دوره هفدهم، خرداد 1398، 208-207       «پوشش همگانی بهداشت: هرکسی، هرجا»   Universal Health Coverage: Everyone, Everywhere   محسن رضائیان[1]   M. Rezaeian   سازمان جهانی بهداشت World Health Organization (WHO)  هر ساله  هفتم آوریل (مصادف با هجدهم فروردین) را به عنوان روز جهانی بهداشت گرامی داشته و شعاری را برای آن انتخاب می‌کند. ...

Strengthening health systems for universal health coverage and sustainable development

Health workforce benchmarks for universal health coverage and sustainable development.

Universal health coverage (UHC) includes the guarantee that everyone will be protected over the entire life-cycle by a defined set of essential health services fulfilling four interrelated criteria, as set out in Social Protection Floors Recommendation, 2012 (202) of the International Labour Organization (ILO): availability, accessibility, acceptability and quality.1 Insofar as it furthers heal...

Public health, universal health coverage, and Sustainable Development Goals: can they coexist?

In her 2012 reconfi rmation speech as WHO DirectorGeneral, Dr Margaret Chan asserted: “universal coverage is the single most powerful concept that public health has to off er. It is our ticket to greater effi ciency and better quality. It is our saviour from the crushing weight of chronic noncommunicable diseases that now engulf the globe”. The UN General Assembly is currently considering propo...

Universal Health Coverage in Fragile and Humanitarian Contexts