One of the targets of Sustainable Development Goal 3 is universal health coverage, but progress has been slowing since 2015. Here’s what you need to know.
Progress towards providing the world with universal healthcare is stagnating and more than half of the global population are still not covered by essential health services, a joint report from the World Health Organization and the World Bank Group has found.
Health service coverage has been improving at a considerable pace since the start of the century, but progress has slowed since 2015 when the sustainable development goals were adopted, says the 2023 global monitoring report, Tracking Universal Health Coverage .1
From 2019 to 2021 no improvement was seen in free healthcare coverage, and the number of people left out of pocket was found to be rising, warned WHO ahead of the high level meeting on universal …