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Essential services

Monitoring equity in universal health coverage with essential services for neglected tropical diseases: an analysis of data reported for five diseases in 123 countries over 9 years


Open AccessPublished:July 24, 2018DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/S2214-109X(18)30307-3

ARTICLES| VOLUME 6, ISSUE 9PE980-E988, SEPTEMBER 01, 2018

Summary


Background

A service coverage index has recently been proposed to monitor progress towards universal health coverage (UHC), and baseline results for 2015 are available. However, evidence on equity in that progress is scarce. The service coverage index did not consider services for neglected tropical diseases (NTDs), a group of preventable diseases defined by WHO member states on the basis of the disproportionate burden they place on their poorest, remotest, and otherwise most marginalised communities. Because of the much-needed equity lens that it could provide, NTD service coverage should not be neglected in efforts to monitor UHC progress.

Monitoring equity in universal health coverage with essential services for neglected tropical diseases: an analysis of data reported for five diseases in 123 countries over 9 years


Open AccessPublished:July 24, 2018DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/S2214-109X(18)30307-3

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