Universal Health Coverage, (UHC), has proven to be an undeniable political and very ambitious health agenda aimed at ensuring that everyone access basic quality care services irrespective of their socio-economic status geographical location. The UHC concept is upmost importance in Cameroon considering the high levels out-of-pocket expenditures fragile systems. Achieving will not only increase l...

Canada's universal public healthcare system is unique among developed countries insofar as it does not include universal coverage of prescription drugs. Universal, public coverage of prescription drugs has been recommended by major national commissions in Canada dating back to the 1960s. It has not, however, been implemented. In this article, we extend research on the failure of early proposals...

doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/19831447.2016.04.70485 How to cite this article: Crossetti MGO, Goes MGO. Revista Gaúcha de Enfermagem: a contribution to the Universal Access to Health and Universal Health Coverage [Editorial]. Rev Gaúcha Enferm. 2016 Dec;37(4):e70485. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/19831447.2016.04.70485. Revista Gaúcha de Enfermagem: a contribution to the Universal Access to H...

the world has made a great deal of progress through the millennium development goals (mdgs) to improve the health and well-being of people around the globe, but there remains a long way to go. here we provide reflections on rwanda’s experience in working to meet the health-related targets of the mdgs. this experience has informed our proposal of five guiding principles that may be useful for co...

Chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection, associated with severe liver disease and cancer, affects 70 million people worldwide. New treatments with direct-acting-antivirals offer cure for about 95% of affected individuals; however, treatment costs may be prohibitive in both the poorest and richest nations. Opting for cure may require sacrificing essential household ass...

BACKGROUND With the exception of Canada, all countries with universal health insurance systems provide universal coverage of prescription drugs. Progress toward universal public drug coverage in Canada has been slow, in part because of concerns about the potential costs. We sought to estimate the cost of implementing universal public coverage of prescription drugs in Canada. METHODS We used p...

Last October 2014, the 53rd Directing Council of the Pan American Health Organization, including the ministers of health or their representatives, of all countries in the Americas, approved Resolution CP53.14 about the “Strategy for universal access to health and universal health coverage”(1). Health coverage is defined as “the capacity of the health system to serve the needs of the population,...

Universal Access to Health is considered to be the absence of sociocultural, organizational, economic, geographic and gender-related barriers in health care, and Universal Health Coverage to be the capacity of health systems to respond to the populations' needs at any care level, providing infrastructure, appropriately skilled human resources and health technologies without causing financial da...

Monitoring universal health coverage (UHC) focuses on information on health intervention coverage and financial protection. This paper addresses monitoring intervention coverage, related to the full spectrum of UHC, including health promotion and disease prevention, treatment, rehabilitation, and palliation. A comprehensive core set of indicators most relevant to the country situation should be...