In celebration of Universal Health Coverage day The World Health Organization and World Bank cordially invite you to the joint technical launch of the “Tracking Universal Coverage – 2021 Global Monitoring Report” and the “Global Monitoring Report on Financial Protection in Health 2021”.
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Zoom meeting ID: 945 5717 8268 || Passcode: Jerigank12
13 December 2021
15:00-16:30 CET
Background
Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) Target 3.8 – Universal Health Coverage (UHC) – requires that all people can access essential health services without suffering financial hardship. Since 2015, Its achievement is tracked jointly by The World Health Organization and the World Bank with bi-annual Global Monitoring Reports on Universal health Coverage and Financial Protection in Health. Previous Global Monitoring Reports found continued improvements in health service coverage (SDG indictator 3.8.1) but also increasing financial hardship from out-of-pocket health spending (SDG indicator 3.8.2). The disruptions the COVID-19 pandemic continues to cause to economies, households and health systems threaten to revert the hardwon progress on service coverage and to further deepen financial hardship in health. Moreover, the disruptions to data collection pose an unprecedented challenge to UHC monitoring itself.
Event Description and Objective
This event presents key findings from the upcoming Global Monitoring Reports on UHC and Financial Protection 2021, which include new estimates of global and regional pre-pandemic trends in essential health service coverage and financial hardship, a conceptual framework and first empirical findings on the impacts of the pandemic on UHC, and policy recommendations to mitigate them. Four discussants will provide perspectives on current UHC indicators and the challenge of tracking UHC during the pandemic, as well as on the challenges – and opportunities – the pandemic poses for UHC in India Ghana, and selected OECD countries.
The event is jointly organized by the WHO Division of Data, Analytics and Delivery for Impact, WHO Division of Universal Health coverage/Life Course and the World Bank’s Health Nutrition and Population Global Practice.
Joe Kutzin
Dr. Steve Mac Feely
Dr Feng Zhao
Nelly Biondi
Dr. Gabriela Flores
Dr. Ajay Tandon
Dr. Patrick Hoang-Vu Eozenou
Dr. Winnie Yip