Reducing Mortality within Universal Health Coverage

a systematic analysis of amenable deaths in 137 countries - PMC

Universal health coverage has been proposed as a strategy to improve health in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs).

Reducing Mortality within Universal Health Coverage - DCP3 |

A subset of these interventions have been distilled into a “highest-priority UHC package” (HPP) that is designed to address the specific health needs of – and ...

The role of universal health coverage in reducing cancer deaths and ...

Delivering high-quality cancer care: charting a new course for a system in crisis.Institute of Medicine, Washington, DC, 2013

Universal health coverage (UHC) - World Health Organization (WHO)

To build back better, WHO's recommendation is to reorient health systems using a primary health care (PHC) approach. Most (90%) of essential UHC ...

Universal healthcare as pandemic preparedness: The lives ... - PNAS

The fragmented and inefficient healthcare system in the United States leads to many preventable deaths and unnecessary costs every year. During a pandemic, the ...

Universal health coverage saves more lives among severely ill ...

Third, the withdrawal of the UHC policy decreased healthcare service utilization by severely ill patients, allocating insufficient healthcare ...

Progress towards universal health coverage and inequalities in ...

A one unit increase in the UHC index was associated with a 1·2% reduction in the risk of infant death (AOR 0·988, 95% CI 0·981–0·995; absolute measure of ...

The Effects of Health Coverage on Population Outcomes: Country ...

Higher immunization coverage is also found to decrease mortality rates. Thus, our study offers hard evidence that investing in broader health coverage can ...

Universal Health Coverage Overview - World Bank

The goal of Universal Health Coverage (UHC) is to ensure everyone receives the health services they need without facing financial hardship.

Study: More Than 335000 Lives Could Have Been Saved During ...

Yale Study: Universal health care could have prevented thousands of COVID deaths. ... In the United States, death rates from COVID-19 are higher ...

Socioeconomic characteristics, cancer mortality, and universal ...

The role of universal health coverage (UHC) in reducing cancer deaths has been widely recognized by current evidence, highlighting the ...

Global Perspective on U.S. Health Care - Commonwealth Fund

Not only is the U.S. the only country we studied that does not have universal health coverage, but its health system can seem designed to ...

Redefining universal health coverage in the age of global health ...

Third, UHC protects against economic downturn, with unemployment associated with a lower mortality in UHC countries compared with those without.2 This is ...

Socioeconomic characteristics, cancer mortality, and universal ...

The role of universal health coverage (UHC) in reducing cancer deaths has been identified. However, the socioeconomic inequality in cancer mortality and its ...

Health - United Nations Sustainable Development

... in 47 countries. However, insufficient progress has been made in other areas, such as on reducing maternal mortality and expanding universal health coverage.

Converging global health agendas and universal health coverage

In this paper, we call for greater coordination and coherence using a UHC+ lens to suggest new approaches to funding that can extend beyond biomedical health ...

The promise and peril of universal health care - Science

In high-income countries, a higher density of primary care providers is associated with lower all-cause mortality (29). Beyond improving health, ...

How does access to healthcare affect life expectancy?

After addressing other risk factors, it was found that individuals under a universal health care system live longer with lower mortality rates. The text ...

Universal Health Coverage and the Global Impact of COVID-19

Our preliminary analysis shows that UHC status may not protect against mortality in a pandemic, as countries with a case fatality rate (CFR) ...

Tajikistan paves the way for universal health coverage with strong ...

Tajikistan's long-term investment in primary health care (PHC) has significantly reduced maternal and infant mortality rates and the ...