Strategy for Universal Access to Health and Universal Health Coverage

This strategy establishes four simultaneous, interdependent strategic lines:

  • (a) expanding equitable access to comprehensive, quality, people- and community-centered health services;
  • (b) strengthening stewardship and governance;
  • (c) increasing and improving financing with equity and efficiency, and advancing toward the elimination of direct payments that constitute a barrier to access at the point of service; and
  • (d) strengthening multisectoral coordination to address the social determinants of health that ensure the sustainability of universal coverage.

53rd Directing Council. Washington, DC. USA, 29 September - 3 October 2014.   

CD53/5, Rev.2. 2 October 2014