#UHC is a broad social contract for access to quality health services to all with solidarity between healthy & sick and between rich & poor. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31795-5/fulltext?s=09#.X0idxu_By7k.twitter">https://www.thelancet.com/journals/...
#UHC individual & societal benefits on wellbeing & welfare are immense, much beyond contribution to medical technology related mortality gains eg
financial protection
health security
social cohesion
societal resilience
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financial protection
health security
social cohesion
societal resilience
economic growth https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31795-5/fulltext?s=09#.X0idxu_By7k.twitter">https://www.thelancet.com/journals/...
Health gains related to #UHC (effective coverage) are not defined as absence of mortality
@WHO defines health as “a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being & not merely the absence of disease or infirmity” https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31795-5/fulltext?s=09#.X0idxu_By7k.twitter">https://www.thelancet.com/journals/...
@WHO defines health as “a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being & not merely the absence of disease or infirmity” https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31795-5/fulltext?s=09#.X0idxu_By7k.twitter">https://www.thelancet.com/journals/...
Quality people-centered #UHC health services include counseling, palliative & rehabilitative care, nutrition, mental health, disability preventing care, pain prevention & relief, etc
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