2024年12月12日 · Universal health coverage is an important part of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). SDG 3.8 aims to “achieve universal health coverage, including financial risk protection, access to quality essential health care services, and access to safe, effective, quality, and affordable essential medicines and vaccines for all.”

Universal Health Coverage (UHC) means that all people can access quality essential health services, without having to suffer financial hardship to pay for health care. Despite some progress, at least half of the world’s population still cannot obtain essential health services, according to ...

2014年10月20日 · Universal health coverage protects the poor and near-poor from catastrophic economic and social costs related to health expenditures, which impoverish 100m people a year worldwide. With increasing incomes and the emergence of a sizeable middle class, public expectations for emerging markets’ health systems are rising.

2020年6月29日 · The Bank-financed Supporting Effective Universal Health Coverage Project, approved by the World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors on 18 May 2018, continues these efforts towards the achievement of universal health care (UHC) coverage, consolidating and deepening access among the target population while further incentivizing systemic changes ...

2014年1月1日 · Abstract: Indonesia launched the national health insurance program - Jaminan Kesehatan National (JKN) - on January 1, 2014, and aims to achieve universal health coverage (UHC) by 2019. Achieving UHC means not only increasing the number of people covered but also expanding the benefits package and ensuring financial protection.

2014年1月14日 · When Ethiopia launched its free universal primary care program in 2003, at its center was a network of health extension workers. These 35,000 women -- 10th grade high school graduates recruited from their communities -- were trained for one year and redeployed back into their communities.

Through the Korea-World Bank Partnership Facility (KWPF), the World Bank is providing critical support to countries in the Caribbean in their ambitious journey to expand Universal Health Coverage (UHC). UHC, a Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), 2023 target (set in 2015), is based on the principle that all individuals and communities should have access to quality …

Investment in Africa’s health systems is key to inclusive and sustainable growth. Strong economic growth in recent years has helped reduce poverty to 43 percent of the population. Yet, as Africa’s population expands—it is estimated to reach 2.5 billion by 2050—the region faces a critical ...

2023年12月6日 · The Program for Universal Primary Healthcare Coverage and Resilience will improve the population's access to quality health services, through innovative measures aimed at increasing the accessibility, resilience, and efficiency of primary care. This will contribute to consolidating primary care as the basis of the health service delivery system.

2023年9月18日 · These shifts are essential to counter the impact of COVID-19 on health systems and the health workforce globally, as well as the new challenges posed by macroeconomic, climate, demographic, and political trends that threaten hard-won health gains worldwide.