PHM-Exch> Universal Health Coverage

[Claudio Schuftan]

        Universal Health Coverage:
Beyond Rhetoric

This paper raises critical questions around the wide and growing enthusiasm
for Universal Health Coverage (UHC). Typically defined as a health
financing system based on pooling of funds to provide health coverage for a
country’s entire population, it often takes the form of a ‘basic package’
of services made available through health insurance and provided by a
growing private sector.

Such programs are now zealously promoted by global health agencies, yet the
evidence to support their implementation remains extremely thin. The paper
argues that re-imagining public health care – rather than the private
sellout of health systems via UHC – is the only way forward in building
truly *universal *health outcomes. Keep
reading...<http://municipalservicesproject.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3c52ae518ac25058dc11dab28&id=3ed25f260c&e=89a7443497>


New Video

*Universal health: From private coverage to public
care*<http://municipalservicesproject.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3c52ae518ac25058dc11dab28&id=2f48c22b54&e=89a7443497>
The universal health coverage agenda is opening the door for privatization
of public health systems in the global South. In India, insurance-based
coverage has skewed public health priorities and starved primary care. This
animation video calls on people everywhere to mobilize around public
alternatives to achieve health for all.

Go to *YouTube
<http://municipalservicesproject.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3c52ae518ac25058dc11dab28&id=0ae9814082&e=89a7443497>*!
(Spanish subtitles available)
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