Primary Health Care on the Road to Universal Health Coverage 2019 GLOBAL MONITORING REPORT
Highlights of Executive Summary
This report highlights the global coverage of health services and financial protection. It also addresses gender and equity related challenges. And it identifies primary health care as the route to universal health coverage.
- Service coverage improving – but not fast enough
- The pace of progress needs to accelerate
- Financial protection – going in the wrong direction
- Weak health systems combine with socioeconomic factors to impede coverage
- Gender drives health service access and health-seeking behaviour
- Close the data gaps to identify health investment priorities
- Policy priorities for four country groups
- Primary health care – the engine for UHC
- Funding from domestic resources and better targeted aid
- UHC is, after all, a political choice
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