PHM-Exch> Fwd: Making fair choices on the path to universal health coverage - Final report of the WHO Consultative Group on Equity and Universal Health Coverage

[Claudio Schuftan]

From: equity-PAHO <equity at paho.org>


 *[PAHO/WHO Equity list & Knowledge network]*

*Making fair choices on the path to universal health coverage*

*Final report of the WHO Consultative Group on Equity and Universal Health
Coverage*


 *Preface*

Universal health coverage (UHC) is at the center of current efforts to
strengthen health systems and improve the level and distribution of health
and health services. This document is the final report of the WHO
Consultative Group on Equity and Universal Health Coverage. The report
addresses the key issues of fairness and equity that arise on the path to
UHC. As such, the report is relevant for every actor that affects that path
and governments in particular, as they are in charge of overseeing and
guiding the progress toward UHC.


 *Content*

This report addresses the critical choices of fairness and equity that
arise on the path to UHC. Accordingly, the report is not primarily about
why UHC ought to be a goal, but about the path to that goal. The report may
differ from others in the direct way it addresses fundamental issues and
difficult trade-offs. This approach was facilitated by the involvement of
philosophers and ethicists in addition to economists, policy experts, and
clinical doctors.


 *Full text:*

http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/112671/1/9789241507158_eng.pdf?ua=1


 *Authors*

*Members of the WHO Consultative Group*:

Trygve Ottersen,* Ole F Norheim,* Bona M Chitah, Richard Cookson, Norman
Daniels, Frehiwot B Defaye, Nir Eyal, Walter Flores, Axel Gosseries, Daniel
Hausman, Samia A Hurst, Lydia Kapiriri, Toby Ord, Shlomi Segall, Gita Sen,
Alex Voorhoeve, Daniel Wikler, Alicia E Yamin


 *WHO staff*:

Tessa T T Edejer, Andreas Reis, Ritu Sadana, Carla Saenz

* Lead authors


 *Acknowledgements*

This work was funded by the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation
(Norad) and the Research Council of Norway; the Brocher Foundation,
Switzerland; the Harvard University Program in Ethics and Health; and the
International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Canada


 For additional information please contact *Mrs. Carla Saenz*, (
saenzcar at paho.org) Bioethics Regional Advisor, Knowledge Management,
Bioethics and Research (KBR), Pan American Health Organization, Regional
office of the World Health Organization.



Pan American Health Organization, Regional Office of the World Health
Organization

Department of Knowledge Management, Bioethics and Research (KBR)

Office of the Assistant Director

http://www.paho.org
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