Monitoring universal health coverage (UHC)
Universal health coverage (UHC) is a priority goal for many countries and has also emerged as a possible goal in the post-2015 development agenda.
Monitoring progress towards UHC is critical globally and especially in countries, including intervention coverage, financial risk protection, both with an equity dimension.
2021 UHC monitoring report
Featured publication | 27 June 2022
Tracking Universal Health Coverage: 2021 Global monitoring...
While service coverage has improved in the last 20 years, the proportion of people facing financial hardship due to out-of-pocket health spending has increased. With rising poverty and shrinking incomes resulting from the current global economic recession...
2023 UHC country consultation process webinar
15 December 2021
Global expenditure on health: Public spending on the rise?
The 2021 Report examines country health spending patterns and trends over the past 20 years, before the COVID-19 pandemic, with greater focus on public...
2019 UHC monitoring report
9 September 2019
Primary health care on the road to universal health coverage: 2019 monitoring report
Executive Summary
Over the past two decades, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the World Bank have been tracking financial protection using household survey data to...
Previous UHC monitoring reports
10 January 2017
Tracking Universal Health Coverage
Universal health coverage (UHC) means that all people can obtain the health services they need without suffering financial hardship. This report looks...
This report is the first of its kind to measure health service coverage and financial protection to assess countries’ progress towards universal...
30 April 2014
Monitoring progress towards universal health coverage at country and global levels: framework, measures...
This paper was written on the basis of consultations and discussions with country representatives, technical experts and global health and development...