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Universal Health Coverage and the Right to Health

Overview of attention for article published in International Journal of Social Determinants of Health and Health Services, June 2015
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Title
Universal Health Coverage and the Right to Health
Published in
International Journal of Social Determinants of Health and Health Services, June 2015
DOI 10.1177/0020731415584554
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Authors

Devi Sridhar, Martin McKee, Gorik Ooms, Claudia Beiersmann, Eric Friedman, Hebe Gouda, Peter Hill, Albrecht Jahn

Abstract

Universal Health Coverage (UHC) is widely considered one of the key components for the post-2015 health goal. The idea of UHC is rooted in the right to health, set out in the International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights. Based on the Covenant and the General Comment of the Committee on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights, which is responsible for interpreting and monitoring the Covenant, we identify 6 key legal principles that should underpin UHC based on the right to health: minimum core obligation, progressive realization, cost-effectiveness, shared responsibility, participatory decision making, and prioritizing vulnerable or marginalized groups. Yet, although these principles are widely accepted, they are criticized for not being specific enough to operationalize as post-2015 indicators for reaching the target of UHC. In this article, we propose measurable and achievable indicators for UHC based on the right to health that can be used to inform the ongoing negotiations on Sustainable Development Goals. However, we identify 3 major challenges that face any exercise in setting indicators post-2015: data availability as an essential criterion, the universality of targets, and the adaptation of global goals to local populations.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 71 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 9 13%
Student > Postgraduate 7 10%
Student > Ph. D. Student 7 10%
Student > Doctoral Student 7 10%
Researcher 5 7%
Other 17 24%
Unknown 19 27%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 15 21%
Social Sciences 11 15%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 3 4%
Business, Management and Accounting 3 4%
Nursing and Health Professions 2 3%
Other 13 18%
Unknown 24 34%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 26. 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 16 November 2023.
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#1,481,732
of 25,374,917 outputs
Outputs from International Journal of Social Determinants of Health and Health Services
#98
of 982 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#18,103
of 278,286 outputs
Outputs of similar age from International Journal of Social Determinants of Health and Health Services
#4
of 15 outputs
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