universal health coverage

After this week's high-level meeting at the UN General Assembly, we’re left asking one big question.

After Member States adopted the UHC Declaration at the UN General Assembly, we’re left asking one big question.

I am one of thousands of community and frontline health workers bringing primary health care within reach of all Liberians.

Authors: Kristen Devlin and Kim Farnham Egan, JSI According to the World Bank and the World Health Organization, at least half of the world lacks access to all essential health services. In pursuit of the goal of universal health coverage, countries are developing strategies to reduce health...

Conventional wisdom tells us that change takes time, but I would argue it is time to be impatient. We must challenge ourselves to be intolerant of the perpetuation of the two standards of care that exist in the world today; it results in unnecessary loss of lives and destruction of communities. Dr Vanessa Kerry says it's time to be impatient to achieve health equity!

As global health policymakers from around the world this week are discussing the financing needed to achieve universal health coverage on the sidelines of the World Bank spring meetings here in Washington – they would be wise to heed the stories and calls for investment and inclusion by the frontline health workers who spoke at the Health Heroes + Social Good Summit on April 5 during World Health Worker Week.

Abt Associates outlines key takeaways from an event on the importance of governance in achieving universal health coverage.

How do you move from policy to implementation to deliver “truly patient-centered” care?

Today, I remember Gabriel, a Panamanian boy half my age who first taught me how a fractured health system fails people.

Investing in health benefits economies – in fact, evidence reveals the economic return on investment in health is 9 to 1.