Table 1 Summary analysis of global UHC policy documents
Document No. | Source | Title | # pages | # occurrences “equit*” | # occurrences “equal*” | # occurrences “disparit*” | Levels of equity considered | Types of inequity considered (stratifiers) | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Broadly speaking/ undefined | Social determinants and/or health behaviours and/or risk factors | Health outcomes | Health systems and/or policies and/or distribution of resources/funds/expenditure | Access to (quality) healthcare/services and/or coverage and/or use of services | Funding/ financing (contribution) | Financial protection (access) and/or benefit entitlement and/or risk equalisation | Across countries | Income/ wealth/ poverty | Education | Undefined / other socio-economic aspects (e.g. occupation, financial protection schemes) | Geographic: regions and/or urban/rural | Gender | Age | Culture/ ethnicity/ religion/ migrants | |||||||
G1 | WHO 2008 | World Health Report 2008: Primary health care: Now more than ever [2] | 148 | 168 | 82 | 5 | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | |
G2 | WHO 2010 | World Health Report 2010: Health Systems Financing: The path to universal coverage [30] | 128 | 41 | 32 | 1 | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | ||||
G3 | WHO 2013 | World Health Report 2013: Research for Universal Health Coverage [31] | 168 | 27 | 1 | 0 | x | x | x | x | x | ||||||||||
G4 | WHO 2013 | Arguing for Universal Health Coverage [32] | 40 | 23 | 2 | 0 | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | |||||||
G5 | WHO 2013 | Universal Health Coverage: Supporting Country Needs [33] | 12 | 9 | 7 | 0 | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | |||||
G6 | WHO & WB 2013 | Background document Towards UHC: concepts, lessons and public policy challenges [34] | 4 | 2 | 3 | 0 | x | x | x | x | |||||||||||
G7 | WB 2013 | The Impact of Universal Coverage Schemes in the Developing World [35] | 151 | 21 | 9 | 0 | x | x | x | x | |||||||||||
G8 | Rockefeller Foundation, Save the Children, UNICEF and WHO 2013 | Universal Health Coverage: A Commitment to Close the Gap [36] | 84 | 373 | 26 | 4 | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x |
G9 | WHO & WB 2014 | Monitoring progress towards universal health coverage at country and global levels – Framework, measures and targets [25] | 14 | 20 | 0 | 0 | x | x | x | x | x | ||||||||||
G10 | ILO 2014 | Universal Health Protection: Progress to date and the way forward [29] | 130 | 52 | 20 | 0 | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | ||||
G11 | WB 2013 | Going Universal – How 24 Developing Countries Are Implementing Universal Health Coverage Reforms from the Bottom Up [37] | 289 | 51 | 27 | 0 | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | ||||||
G12 | WHO/ regional office for Africa 2015 | The African Health Monitor Special issue: Universal Health Coverage [38] | 76 | 51 | 6 | 5 | x | x | x | x | x | x | |||||||||
G13 | WHO & WB 2015 | Tracking universal health coverage: first global monitoring report [1] | 98 | 35 | 22 | 11 | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | |||
G14 | WHO 2016 | Health financing country diagnostic: a foundation for national strategy development [39] | 58 | 62 | 22 | 0 | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | ||||||||
G15 | WHO 2016 | Public Financing for Health in Africa: from Abuja to the SDGs [40] | 92 | 12 | 1 | 0 | x | x | x | x | |||||||||||
G16 | WHO 2017 | Global Report: New Perspectives on Global Health Spending for Universal Health Coverage [41] | 40 | 4 | 2 | 0 | x | x | x | x | |||||||||||
G17 | WHO 2017 | Together on the road to universal health coverage – a call to action [42] | 38 | 9 | 10 | 0 | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | ||||||||
G18 | WHO 2017 | Developing a national health financing strategy: a reference guide [43] | 44 | 20 | 2 | 0 | x [UHC intermediate obj.] | x [final coverage goal] | x | x [final coverage goal] | x | x | |||||||||
G19 | WHO & WB 2017 | Tracking universal health coverage: 2017 global monitoring report [43] | 88 | 12 | 43 | 0 | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | ||||||
G20 | WHO/Regional Office for Africa 2017 | The state of health in the WHO African Region: an analysis of the status of health, health services and health systems in the context of the SDGs [44] | 184 | 38 | (8)* | 2 | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | |||||||
Total (out of 20 documents): | 12 | 7 | 7 | 13 | 18 | 12 | 14 | 7 | 15 | 5 | 12 | 13 | 10 | 4 | 6 | ||||||