All for Health, Health for All: Optimizing service delivery, the driving force for primary health care and universal health coverage

Overview

Universal health coverage (UHC) is vital for ensuring that everyone can achieve their highest attainable standard of health, contributing to stronger economies, healthier societies and a more equitable world. At the core of UHC is the commitment to ensuring that health services are accessible, affordable, safe, effective, and centred around people’s needs. Improving how services are designed, delivered, and measured is critical to placing quality at the heart of UHC, providing the full range of care—from prevention to palliative services, removing barriers to access and reaching marginalized populations. This means a shift is needed from health systems designed around diseases and institutions to health systems designed by people, for people. By reimagining health services provision, health outcomes and trust in health systems improve, gender equality, human rights, and health equity advance, and resilient heath systems are built.