On 1 December the new President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, and her team of 26 Commissioners, began their term in office. The approval process was lengthy, with three proposed Commissioners rejected by the European Parliament and the United Kingdom refusing to nominate a candidate, but the 2019-2024 leadership of the European […]
For many of the world’s poorest countries, achieving universal health coverage – and the other health-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) – will require a big expansion of government health expenditure. There are a number of global actors that can help enable that expansion – or get in the way.
I recently attended the annual meeting of the American Public Health Association, a super-size conference in which over 10,000 public health professionals congregate (this year in San Diego) for five days of presentations, discussion and networking, fuelled by bad coffee and a desire to collect as many badge ribbons as possible.
The lack of access to healthcare for undocumented migrants and failed asylum seekers has for many years been considered one the United Kingdom’s most pressing human rights issues.
Inequality in health care access is pervasive and well-documented around the world – in sub-Saharan Africa, this inequality was exacerbated by user fees in public facilities.
The case for universal health coverage (UHC) is a powerful one. But it is inherently political. Equitable coverage requires the rich to subsidise the poor, the healthy to support the sick.
