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Universal Health Coverage: Foundations and Horizons (Research in Comparative and Global Social Policy) - Hardcover

Book 1 of 14: Research in Comparative and Global Social Policy

Agartan, Tuba I.

 
9781447371847: Universal Health Coverage: Foundations and Horizons (Research in Comparative and Global Social Policy)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1447371844 ISBN 13: 9781447371847
Publisher: Policy Press, 2025

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

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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Publisher
Policy Press
Publication date
2025
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1447371844
ISBN 13 
9781447371847
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
240