Accelerating Health Equity : The Key Role of Universal Health Coverage in the Sustainable Development Goals

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), to be committed to by Heads of State at the upcoming 2015 United Nations General Assembly, have set much higher and more ambitious health-related goals and targets than did the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The main challenge among MDG off-track count...

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Main Authors:	Tangcharoensathien, Viroj, Mills, Anne, Palu, Toomas
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	en_US
Published:	BioMed Central 2015
Subjects:	Sustainable Development Goals universal health coverage health equity health systems strengthening health workforce SDGs
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/23139

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spelling	okr-10986-231392021-04-23T14:04:13Z Accelerating Health Equity : The Key Role of Universal Health Coverage in the Sustainable Development Goals Tangcharoensathien, Viroj Mills, Anne Palu, Toomas Sustainable Development Goals universal health coverage health equity health systems strengthening health workforce SDGs The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), to be committed to by Heads of State at the upcoming 2015 United Nations General Assembly, have set much higher and more ambitious health-related goals and targets than did the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The main challenge among MDG off-track countries is the failure to provide and sustain financial access to quality services by communities, especially the poor. Universal health coverage (UHC), one of the SDG health targets indispensable to achieving an improved level and distribution of health, requires a significant increase in government investment in strengthening primary healthcare - the close-to-client service which can result in equitable access. Given the trend of increased fiscal capacity in most developing countries, aiming at long-term progress toward UHC is feasible, if there is political commitment and if focused, effective policies are in place. Trends in high income countries, including an aging population which increases demand for health workers, continue to trigger international migration of health personnel from low and middle income countries. The inspirational SDGs must be matched with redoubled government efforts to strengthen health delivery systems, produce and retain more and relevant health workers, and progressively realize UHC. 2015-11-24T22:14:08Z 2015-11-24T22:14:08Z 2015-04-29 Journal Article BMC Medicine http://hdl.handle.net/10986/23139 en_US CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo World Bank BioMed Central Publications & Research :: Journal Article Publications & Research
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spellingShingle	Sustainable Development Goals universal health coverage health equity health systems strengthening health workforce SDGs Tangcharoensathien, Viroj Mills, Anne Palu, Toomas Accelerating Health Equity : The Key Role of Universal Health Coverage in the Sustainable Development Goals
description	The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), to be committed to by Heads of State at the upcoming 2015 United Nations General Assembly, have set much higher and more ambitious health-related goals and targets than did the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The main challenge among MDG off-track countries is the failure to provide and sustain financial access to quality services by communities, especially the poor. Universal health coverage (UHC), one of the SDG health targets indispensable to achieving an improved level and distribution of health, requires a significant increase in government investment in strengthening primary healthcare - the close-to-client service which can result in equitable access. Given the trend of increased fiscal capacity in most developing countries, aiming at long-term progress toward UHC is feasible, if there is political commitment and if focused, effective policies are in place. Trends in high income countries, including an aging population which increases demand for health workers, continue to trigger international migration of health personnel from low and middle income countries. The inspirational SDGs must be matched with redoubled government efforts to strengthen health delivery systems, produce and retain more and relevant health workers, and progressively realize UHC.
format	Journal Article
author	Tangcharoensathien, Viroj Mills, Anne Palu, Toomas
author_facet	Tangcharoensathien, Viroj Mills, Anne Palu, Toomas
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title	Accelerating Health Equity : The Key Role of Universal Health Coverage in the Sustainable Development Goals
title_short	Accelerating Health Equity : The Key Role of Universal Health Coverage in the Sustainable Development Goals
title_full	Accelerating Health Equity : The Key Role of Universal Health Coverage in the Sustainable Development Goals
title_fullStr	Accelerating Health Equity : The Key Role of Universal Health Coverage in the Sustainable Development Goals
title_full_unstemmed	Accelerating Health Equity : The Key Role of Universal Health Coverage in the Sustainable Development Goals
title_sort	accelerating health equity : the key role of universal health coverage in the sustainable development goals
publisher	BioMed Central
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