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Breaking down the silos of Universal Health Coverage: towards systems for the primary prevention of non-communicable diseases in Africa
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Oni, Tolu Mogo, Ebele Ahmed, Aliko B. Davies, Justine I. |
| Copyright Year | 2019 |
| Abstract | ### Summary box The third sustainable development goal (SDG), ensuring healthy lives and well-being for all at all ages, although comprising multiple components, is often strongly linked with the concept of universal health coverage (UHC) and its underlying principles of equity, quality and financial protection. The importance of addressing the upstream determinants of health as a vital accelerator of progress in achieving the SDGs has been recognised1; however, in practice, the implementation of UHC has often been restricted to a disease-fighting, healthcare-centric approach. This constrains the ability to achieve WHO’s definition of health as the attainment of ‘complete physical, mental and social … |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.1136/bmjgh-2019-001717 |
| PubMed reference number | 31478015 |
| Journal | Medline |
| Volume Number | 4 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/pmc/oa_pdf/13/e7/bmjgh-2019-001717.PMC6703281.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2019-001717 |
| Journal | BMJ global health |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
