#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
The universal health coverage ambition faces a critical test

Universal health coverage (UHC) has been a focus of the global development conversation over the past decade and, increasingly, of national policy making in countries across a wide range of income...

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31795-5/fulltext?s=09#.X0idxu_By7k.twitter
#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
economic growth https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31795-5/fulltext?s=09#.X0idxu_By7k.twitter
The universal health coverage ambition faces a critical test

Universal health coverage (UHC) has been a focus of the global development conversation over the past decade and, increasingly, of national policy making in countries across a wide range of income...

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31795-5/fulltext?s=09#.X0idxu_By7k.twitter
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
The universal health coverage ambition faces a critical test

Universal health coverage (UHC) has been a focus of the global development conversation over the past decade and, increasingly, of national policy making in countries across a wide range of income...

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31795-5/fulltext?s=09#.X0idxu_By7k.twitter
Quality people-centered #UHC health services include counseling, palliative & rehabilitative care, nutrition, mental health, disability preventing care, pain prevention & relief, etc

@mkruk @etkelley419 @FranColombo2019 https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-109X(20)30104-2/fulltext
Effective coverage measurement in maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health and nutrition:...

Intervention coverage—the proportion of the population with a health-care need who receive care—does not account for intervention quality and potentially overestimates health benefits of services...

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-109X(20)30104-2/fulltext
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