Universal Health Coverage by Tuba I Agartan

Universal Health Coverage by Tuba I Agartan

This book traces the origins of Universal Health Coverage (UHC) in the broader context of universalism since the beginning of the 20th century.

UHC aims to improve access to essential health services, provide financial protection and overcome health care inequities.

Drawing on rich first-hand data, including expert interviews and archival research, this book adopts a historical–sociological methodology to analyse some of UHC’s key political dynamics: consensus, conflicts, negotiations and struggles. It reveals that UHC is the result of a unique conjoining of movements in health, debates on human rights and concerns with development in a particular world context across the Global North and Global South.

“Valuable for students, academics and health professionals in the global health sector, this book helps with understanding different theories of health and development and how they relate to universalism” Claire Muñoz Parry, World Health Organization

Tuba I Agartan is Professor of Health Sciences at Providence College, US. Her research interests are at the interface of public policy and sociology, with a focus on comparative health policy, development studies and global health.

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ISBN 13	9781447371847
Title	Universal Health Coverage
Author	Tuba I Agartan
Series	Research In Comparative And Global Social Policy
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Bristol University Press
Year published	2025-04-24
Number of pages	240
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