India must focus on making universal health coverage a reality
At the 2012 World Health Assembly, the then director general of the World Health Organization, Margaret Chan, declared that universal health coverage is the most powerful concept that public health has to offer. Without robust primary health services, preventable or easily treatable diseases will flood secondary and tertiary care facilities demanding expensive care for complications that should have been avoided. UHC will then tilt heavily towards advanced hospital care, disproportionately draining the health budget and leaving little impact on population health indicators UHC is visualised as an ideal state of health system organisation in which every person gets quality health services as per her needs, without suffering financial hardship. UHC will then tilt heavily towards advanced hospital care, disproportionately draining the health budget and leaving little impact on population health indicators.
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