<div dir="ltr">From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Global Health Check</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:globalhealthcheckblog@gmail.com">globalhealthcheckblog@gmail.com</a>></span><br><div class="gmail_quote"><br><b>Universal Health Coverage: key to the success of the World Bank’s new vision </b><br>
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by Katie Malouf<br>
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“We must be the generation that delivers universal health coverage.” –
WBG President Jim Yong Kim in a speech to the World Health Assembly, May
2013 As the World Bank Group’s Annual Meetings come to Washington this
weekend, there is much talk of President Jim Yong Kim’s new strategy to
achieve the institution’s updated vision: ...
<br><br>Conditions that are necessary for health systems to be equitable and
universal: Four key ingredients to successful
financing for UHC: removal of direct payments and other financial
barriers, compulsory pre-payment, large risk pools, and financing from
general revenues to cover the uncovered. (Conventional
insurance schemes – whether private, community-based or European-style
social health insurance – come up short when measured against these
criteria).
<p>Since UHC is about access to quality care for everyone regardless of
ability to pay, governments must move away from relying on
employment-based and contributory insurance models. Instead, health
care must become a right of citizenship (or residency), financed in
large part through general government revenues. Equity must be designed into the system from the
beginning, rather than starting with the easiest to reach in the formal
sector.</p>
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Anna Marriott<br>
Global Health Check editor<br>
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