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From Primary Health Care to Universal Health Coverage

There are conflicting perspectives on how to achieve ‘Health for All’, with recent convergence around the MDGs, SDGs and UHC as goals and strategies.

The global health privatisation debates were a large-scale version of a question asked in every health system: who should pay for health care, and how? And if the health system’s goal is universal health coverage, which services should be prioritised for universal access, and which might have limited availability or attract additional fees? We’ll look at these questions in more detail in the next few weeks.


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