Health Equity and Universal Health Coverage
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Global Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 October 2024 | Viewed by 302
Special Issue Editors
2. Department of Social and Organizational Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), 28040 Madrid, Spain
Interests: public health; mental health; health inequalities; gender inequalities; occupational health; healthy ageing
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Interests: public health; environmental health; health inequalities; determinants of health; epidemiology
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Dear Colleagues,
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), Universal Health Coverage (UHC) implies that "all people and communities receive the health services they need without limitations due to their economic situation”. Universal health coverage must include not only the treatment of acute and chronic diseases but also activities focused on the prevention of health problems, rehabilitation and palliative care, and health promotion including physical and mental health across the life course.
Achieving UHC is one of the targets the nations of the world set when they adopted the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in 2015. Additionally, it is a prerequisite and condition of health equity, hence the importance of scientific studies on the progress that is being made towards this goal, and knowing if all types of health services are affected to the same extent. It is also important to collect evidence about how advances in UHC impact on health outcomes in different social groups (defined by gender, age, social class, race, etc.). Lastly, it is also of interest to know proposals and reflections on how to achieve and implement sustainable policies that bring us closer to the objective of equity in health and UHC.
Prof. Dr. Inmaculada Mateo-Rodríguez
Prof. Dr. Antonio Daponte-Codina
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- universal health coverage
- mental and physical services
- health equity
- health inequality
- social determinants of health
