Challanges and Implementation of Universal Health Coverage (UHC) in Developing Countries

The concept of universal health coverage is quite simple – that people can easily access the health services they need, without suffering financial hardship when paying for them to secure poor from crossing the poverty line.

The year 2021 indicated at its closure that only 36% of the world have adopted Universal Health Coverage totally or partially. It is estimated that more than half the world still lacks access to essential health services, and that’s why today Universal Health Coverage (UHC) is so important. That is Why UHC is vital to fight extreme poverty?  besides following chanllanges.

Challanges

1. High maternal and child mortality rates
2. Increasing double burden of communicable and non communicable diseases.
3. Poorly funded and poorly governed health system.
4. Lack of accountability and corruption.
5. Low health literacy rates.
6. Ongoing challenges
1. Terrorism
2. Susceptibility to natural disasters like floods and earthquakes.
3. Spending less of GDP on healthcare services will results in majority of population spending out of their own scare resources and ultimately will cross the poverty line.

Implementation 

The pre-requisits of implementation of UHS and health reforms are as under: