TY - JOUR
T1 - Medicines and universal health coverage
T2 - Challenges and opportunities
AU - Bigdeli, Maryam
AU - Laing, Richard
AU - Tomson, Göran
AU - Babar, Zaheer Ud Din
PY - 2015/2/16
Y1 - 2015/2/16
N2 - The goal of Universal health coverage (UHC) is to ensure that all people obtain the health services they need without suffering financial hardship when paying for them [1]. This goal is based on the idea of an affordable continuum of care from preventive to curative and rehabilitative services for which essential health system resources are required. These resources include health workers, essential medicines and technologies [1]. Universal health coverage (UHC) is also the focus of ongoing high-level discussions, a momentum created by the World Health Report 2010 and a pathway to which many agencies and governments now commit
AB - The goal of Universal health coverage (UHC) is to ensure that all people obtain the health services they need without suffering financial hardship when paying for them [1]. This goal is based on the idea of an affordable continuum of care from preventive to curative and rehabilitative services for which essential health system resources are required. These resources include health workers, essential medicines and technologies [1]. Universal health coverage (UHC) is also the focus of ongoing high-level discussions, a momentum created by the World Health Report 2010 and a pathway to which many agencies and governments now commit
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84983120377&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1186/s40545-015-0028-4
DO - 10.1186/s40545-015-0028-4
M3 - Editorial
AN - SCOPUS:84983120377
VL - 8
SP - 1
EP - 3
JO - Journal of Pharmaceutical Policy and Practice
JF - Journal of Pharmaceutical Policy and Practice
SN - 2052-3211
IS - 1
M1 - 8
ER -