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Is universal health coverage the practical expression of the right to health care?

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Public Health, February 2014
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Title
Is universal health coverage the practical expression of the right to health care?
Published in
BMC Public Health, February 2014
DOI 10.1186/1472-698x-14-3
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Authors

Gorik Ooms, Laila A Latif, Attiya Waris, Claire E Brolan, Rachel Hammonds, Eric A Friedman, Moses Mulumba, Lisa Forman

Abstract

The present Millennium Development Goals are set to expire in 2015 and their next iteration is now being discussed within the international community. With regards to health, the World Health Organization proposes universal health coverage as a 'single overarching health goal' for the next iteration of the Millennium Development Goals.The present Millennium Development Goals have been criticised for being 'duplicative' or even 'competing alternatives' to international human rights law. The question then arises, if universal health coverage would indeed become the single overarching health goal, replacing the present health-related Millennium Development Goals, would that be more consistent with the right to health? The World Health Organization seems to have anticipated the question, as it labels universal health coverage as "by definition, a practical expression of the concern for health equity and the right to health".Rather than waiting for the negotiations to unfold, we thought it would be useful to verify this contention, using a comparative normative analysis. We found that--to be a practical expression of the right to health--at least one element is missing in present authoritative definitions of universal health coverage: a straightforward confirmation that international assistance is essential, not optional.But universal health coverage is a 'work in progress'. A recent proposal by the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network proposed universal health coverage with a set of targets, including a target for international assistance, which would turn universal health coverage into a practical expression of the right to health care.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 2 <1%
Kenya 1 <1%
Ghana 1 <1%
South Africa 1 <1%
Unknown 203 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 36 17%
Student > Ph. D. Student 24 12%
Student > Bachelor 21 10%
Other 19 9%
Researcher 15 7%
Other 52 25%
Unknown 41 20%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 51 25%
Social Sciences 40 19%
Nursing and Health Professions 25 12%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 10 5%
Business, Management and Accounting 6 3%
Other 31 15%
Unknown 45 22%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 25. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 24 April 2022.
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#1,746
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#30
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