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People-centred health systems

for universal health coverage Reduce cost

sharing and
fees Include Direct costs:
proportion
other of the costs
services covered?
Health is a human right. And, it is not just an absence of disease. By virtue
of these two considerations health services are required at individual and
population levels and actions are needed to address determinants of health. Governance Extend to
non-covered
Health systems are a sum total of all these efforts by governments, private sector, Services:
development partners and, equally importantly, by communities, families and Medicines and which services
are coverd?
people themselves. Technologies Information Population: who is
covered?
Without an underlying robust and resilient health system, health care services People Three dimensions to consider when moving
and essential public health functions can neither be effective nor sustainable, towards universal health coverage
including emergency response. Weak health systems also endanger global Human Financing
health as was evident from the recent Ebola crises in West Africa. Prevention Resources
and control of communicable and noncommunicable diseases, mental health, Service Universal health coverage is a means to ensure
maternal and child health care, care of the elderly and people with physical Delivery healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all
disabilities and varied other health programmes – all require well-functioning ages with explicit affirmative action for vulnerable
health systems. Governments have the primary responsibility to organize, populations. Universal health coverage means
finance and lead health systems. provision of quality services to everybody without
discrimination of any kind and without exposing
people to financial hardship. One of the targets
of Sustainable Development Goal 3 (SDG3) is to
Economic
Public health Equitable health growth & achieve global universal health coverage by 2030.
security outcomes employment Universal health coverage, like the SDGs, cannot be
achieved without public–private partnerships. The
classical building blocks of health systems have a
Universal health coverage dynamic relationship with each other. Progress

All communities and people receive the quality health services or deterioration in one area affects the others. In
they need, without financial hardship concert, they constitute a system which acts as a
platform for safe and quality health services and
public health interventions to produce desirable
health outcomes. Reliable indicators of health
Health system strengthening system performance tell a story about the health
situation of the people and the country over time.

Fit-for-purpose health systems have good
foundations, robust institutions and the agility to
transform with changing times.

For further information:
A world with equitable and universal access to …
health care and social protection, where physical, International Health Partnership for UHC 2030
mental and social well-being are assured https://www.internationalhealthpartnership.net/en/
Strategizing national health in the 21st century: a handbook
“Our Vision”, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
http://www.who.int/healthsystems/publications/nhpsp-handbook/en/