Progression to Universal Health Coverage – Need for Enhanced Monitoring
Universal health coverage (UHC) is considered as a powerful mechanism for achieving better health, promoting human development and enabling equitable access to the health services, for all.1 With achieving UHC becoming a major policy goal globally and increasing adoptions of UHC at policy levels across various member states of WHO, it is also extremely important to continuously monitor the progress towards UHC across respective states.2 The conditions that causes health related problems and the financial power of a nation to protect its citizens from such conditions differs from one nation to the other.3 Therefore, it is highly important for the respective countries to plan for coverage of health-related services across the entire population and also ensuring financial risk protection based on such aspects while effectively utilising the resources that are limited.4
