[co_inspiracion] Fwd: Policy Brief - Anchoring universal health coverage in the right to health: What difference would it make?

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Date: 2015-12-11 19:03 GMT-03:00
Subject: Policy Brief - Anchoring universal health coverage in the right to
health: What difference would it make?
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*[PAHO/WHO Equity, Health and Human Development – Lista Equidad]*

*Contribution from our valuable members to celebrate the Universal Health
Coverage Day - 12 December 2015 *

*Thank you!!*

*Policy Brief*

*Anchoring universal health coverage in the right to health: What
difference would it make? *

*World Health Organization*

*Publication date: November 2015*

*Abstract / **Resumen:*

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<http://bit.ly/1QfeR43>Universal Health Coverage UHC is a critical
component of the new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) which include a
specific health goal: “Ensure healthy lives and promote wellbeing for all
at all ages”. Within this health goal, a specific target for UHC has been
proposed: “Achieve UHC, including financial risk protection, access to
quality essential health care services and access to safe, effective,
quality and affordable essential medicines and vaccines for all”. In this
context, the opportunity exists to unite global health and the fight
against poverty through action that is focussed on clear goals.

For WHO, “UHC is, by definition, a practical expression of the concern for
health equity and the right to health”(1); thus promoting UHC advances the
overall objective of WHO, namely the attainment by all peoples of the
highest possible standard of health as a fundamental right (3), and signal
a return to the ideals of the Declaration of Alma Ata and the WHO Global
Strategy for Health for All by the Year 2000 (4). Yet some argue that the
“current discourse on UHC is in sharp contrast with the vision of Primary
Health Care envisaged in the Alma Ata declaration of 1978” (5). The
underlying assumption of this paper is that efforts towards achieving UHC
do promote some, but not necessarily all, of the efforts required from
governments for the realization of the right to health.

While this publication explores how efforts to advance towards UHC overlap
with efforts to realize the right to health, its main focus is the gaps
that exist between UHC efforts and right to health efforts.

*Keywords / **Palabras clave:*

Universal Health Coverage; Equity in Health; Right to Health

*How to obtain this publication / **Como obtener esta publicación:* click
here <http://bit.ly/1QfeR43>.

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