Effective Coverage: A Metric for Monitoring Universal Health Coverage
Language:
English
Series/Journal Title:
PLoS Medicine
Volume:
11
Issue:
9
Copyright:
2014
Pages:
9
Description:
A major challenge in monitoring universal health coverage (UHC) is identifying an indicator that can adequately capture the multiple components underlying the UHC initiative. Effective coverage, which unites individual and intervention characteristics into a single metric, offers a direct and flexible means to measure health system performance at different levels. We view effective coverage as a relevant and actionable metric for tracking progress towards achieving UHC. In this paper, we review the concept of effective coverage and delineate the three components of the metric — need, use, and quality — using several examples. [from abstract]
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