Primary health care: now more than ever - World Health Organization

Advancing and sustaininguniversal coveragePeople expect their health systems to beequitable. The roots of health inequitieslie in social conditions outside the health system’sdirect control. These root causes have to be tackledthrough intersectoral and cross-government action.At the same time, the health sector can takesignificant actions to advancehealth equity internally. The basisfor this is the set of reforms thataim at moving towards universalcoverage, i.e. towards universalaccess to health services withsocial health protection.Chapter 2The central place ofhealth equity in PHC24Moving towardsuniversal coverage25Challenges in movingtowards universal coverage27Targeted interventionsto complement universalcoverage mechanisms32Mobilizing for health equity 3423