The Lancet  
Jan 18, 2014  Volume 383  Number 9913   p187 – 280
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/issue/current

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What does universal health coverage mean?
Thomas O’Connell, Kumanan Rasanathan, Mickey Chopra
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The recent UN General Assembly resolution calling for universal health coverage (UHC) was testimony to the continuing high-level political commitment to achievement of global health goals—an achievement that has the potential to transform health systems, especially for the poorest people.1 Fulfilment of this potential, however, requires a clear definition of the term UHC otherwise it could suffer the same fate of the refrain of Health for All, which received high-level political support but failed to produce sufficiently widespread policy and budgeting changes to realise its aims.