WHO urges "coverage for all, not coverage of everything"

Immunization Coverage in WHO Regions: A Review Article

  In 1974, the World Health Organization (WHO) established the Expanded Program on Immunization (EPI) to ensure that all children have access to routinely recommended vaccines. Since then, global coverage with the four core vaccines (Bacille calmette guérin vaccine [for protection against tuberculosis], Diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis vaccine [DTP], Polio vaccine, and Measles vaccine) has increase...

Assuring health coverage for all in India.

Successive Governments of India have promised to transform India's unsatisfactory health-care system, culminating in the present government's promise to expand health assurance for all. Despite substantial improvements in some health indicators in the past decade, India contributes disproportionately to the global burden of disease, with health indicators that compare unfavourably with other mi...

Effective Coverage as a New Metric for Monitoring Progress towards Universal Health Coverage

Experimental medical treatments: who should decide coverage?

Imagine you or your wife, your sister, your mother, your aunt, or your best friend, has just been diagnosed with breast cancer. Treatment is expensive. What if you or your loved one does not have medical insurance? Worse yet, what if you or your loved one has medical insurance, but it does not cover the treatment you need to survive? What are you going to do? Can you pay for the treatment out o...

immunization coverage in who regions: a review article

in 1974, the world health organization (who) established the expanded program on immunization (epi) to ensure that all children have access to routinely recommended vaccines. since then, global coverage with the four core vaccines (bacille calmette guérin vaccine [for protection against tuberculosis], diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis vaccine [dtp], polio vaccine, and measles vaccine) has increased ...