Universal Health Coverage
Foundations and Horizons
1st Edition
Published on 24. April 2025
240 pages
978-1-4473-7185-4 (ISBN)
Description
This book traces the origins of Universal Health Coverage (UHC) in the broader context of universalism since the beginning of the 20th century.
UHC aims to improve access to essential health services, provide financial protection and overcome health care inequities.
Drawing on rich first-hand data, including expert interviews and archival research, this book adopts a historical-sociological methodology to analyse some of UHC's key political dynamics: consensus, conflicts, negotiations and struggles. It reveals that UHC is the result of a unique conjoining of movements in health, debates on human rights and concerns with development in a particular world context across the Global North and Global South.
UHC aims to improve access to essential health services, provide financial protection and overcome health care inequities.
Drawing on rich first-hand data, including expert interviews and archival research, this book adopts a historical-sociological methodology to analyse some of UHC's key political dynamics: consensus, conflicts, negotiations and struggles. It reveals that UHC is the result of a unique conjoining of movements in health, debates on human rights and concerns with development in a particular world context across the Global North and Global South.
Reviews / Votes
"Valuable for students, academics and health professionals in the global health sector, this book helps with understanding different theories of health and development and how they relate to universalism." Claire Munoz Parry, World Health OrganizationAll prices
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Edition
First Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Bristol
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bristol University Press
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
Not illustrated
ISBN-13
978-1-4473-7185-4 (9781447371854)
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Person
Tuba I Agartan is Professor of Health Sciences at Providence College, US. Her research interests are at the interface of public policy and sociology, with a focus on comparative health policy, development studies and global health.
Content
Introduction: Foundations and Horizons of Universal Health Coverage
1. Studying Health, Health Systems, and Universalism
2. Tracing Conceptions of Health and Universalism Amid World Transformations (1920-60)
3. The Period of Alternatives: the NIEO and the Basic Needs Approach (1960-79)
4. Clues for Convergence: Neoliberal Adjustment (1979-98)
5. New Goals, Dynamic Agendas, and the Conjoining of Movements in Universal Health Coverage
6. From Cube to Umbrella: UHC's Path to the SDGs
7. UHC and Universalism in Health: Horizons
Conclusion: Foundations and Horizons
1. Studying Health, Health Systems, and Universalism
2. Tracing Conceptions of Health and Universalism Amid World Transformations (1920-60)
3. The Period of Alternatives: the NIEO and the Basic Needs Approach (1960-79)
4. Clues for Convergence: Neoliberal Adjustment (1979-98)
5. New Goals, Dynamic Agendas, and the Conjoining of Movements in Universal Health Coverage
6. From Cube to Umbrella: UHC's Path to the SDGs
7. UHC and Universalism in Health: Horizons
Conclusion: Foundations and Horizons
