Year: 2014
Type: editorial
Abstract: Despite the current global and national momentum,1 universal health coverage could remain an empty promise unless it is focussed on the provision of qual-ity essential services to everyone. And this, in turn, will not happen without strengthening local health systems. More than 25 years ago, the framing was slightly different – primary health care instead of universal health coverage – but the assessment was similar. In Au-gust 1987, the World Health Organiza-tion organized an interregional meeting in Harare, Zimbabwe, that resulted in the Declaration on strengthening district
Authors: Bruno Meessen, Belma Malanda, for the Community of Practice “Health Service Delivery”
Institution: Instituut voor Tropische Geneeskunde
Language: English
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
Funder: Belgisch Ontwikkelingsagentschap
OpenAlex ID: W2045848121