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The universal health coverage has the aim to provide a high-quality healthcare service to every individual worldwide without inequity and bias. Countries view universal health coverage as a contribution to the sustainable development. It contains two inter-related components, first is providing essential health services that include prevention, treatment, promotion, rehabilitation and palliative care. The second component is the financial risk coverage for individuals. Every year WHO release statements with novel missions in healthcare. Research in healthcare and medical settings act as a backbone to these programs and provide insight regarding the necessities of such policies. Development policies as a part of universal health coverage reflect the status of health systems in different countries. Developing countries are modifying their strategies in the health systems to approach the universal coverage while developed countries are suffering from the economic crisis thus trying to sustain their previous achievements. Developing such policies is a complicated and vibrant process because of the huge historical, political, and socio-economic diversity of each country. WHO defines a framework for designing alike policies that include several basic elements that are appealing stakeholders, Analyzing the situation & setting the priorities, bringing these all together, from a visionary approach to an operational approach, cost evaluation and monitoring and assessment of the scenario. Such as in 2004, WHO released a statement that all the children suffering from Diarrhea should be prescribed Zinc. This statement was based on previous hospital-based randomized case studies. In November 2013 WHO released a statement report on polio outbreak in the Middle East that was centered on the polio vaccination of the Syrian children.
In 2013, WHO director general addressed US Department of health care assuring the quality service to Americans despite their socio-economic status. Most of the Americans are content with the US health systems and show belief in universal health coverage. Though, the economic crisis from last decade has left many people without health insurance, which is a major issue currently faced by most of the Americans with average or low income.
Universal coverage includes multi-factorial elements that are medicines, health products, information systems and most important are the health care providers as without trained and skilled health care workers it is not possible to deliver services within an appropriate time. Thus, it can be said that the health care providers are a significant pillar for universal health care (WHO | Universal health coverage, 2016).
References
WHO | Universal health coverage. (2016). Who.int. Retrieved 21 March 2016, from
http://www.who.int/universal_health_coverage/en/
