Findings in the Area of Public Health Reported from Catholic University of Sacro Cuore (The SDGs and health systems: the last step on the long and unfinished journey to universal health care?)

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2020 MAY 25 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News -- Data detailed on Health and Medicine - Public Health have been presented. According to news reporting out of Rome, Italy, by NewsRx editors, research stated, “In 2015, the world’s governments committed, in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), to achieve universal health coverage by 2030, something they will be held accountable for. We examine progress in the WHO European Region using data from several sources.”

Our news journalists obtained a quote from the research from the Catholic University of Sacro Cuore, “We assess effective coverage using data from the Global Burden of Disease Programme, including access to 9 key interventions for maternal and child health and communicable and non-communicable diseases and mortality from 32 conditions amenable to health care. Progress is mixed; while Finland and Iceland have already achieved the 2030 target already, other countries, including in the Caucasus and Central Asia have not yet, and are unlikely to by 2030. We then examine financial protection, where progress lags in Central and South East Europe and the former Soviet Union, where high out-of-pocket healthcare payments and catastrophic spending are still common. We stress the need to consider inequalities within countries, with the most vulnerable groups, such as Roma or newly arrived migrants (from the Middle East and Africa) often underserved, while their needs are frequently undocumented.”

According to the news editors, the research concluded: “To make progress on the SDGs, governments must invest more heavily in health services research and support the infrastructure and capacity required to enable it.”

For more information on this research see: The SDGs and health systems: the last step on the long and unfinished journey to universal health care? The European Journal of Public Health, 2020;30(Supplement):i28-i31. The European Journal of Public Health can be contacted at: Oxford Univ Press, Great Clarendon St, Oxford OX2 6DP, England.

Our news journalists report that additional information may be obtained by contacting W. Ricciardi, Dept. of Public Health, Catholic University of Sacro Cuore, Roma, Italy. Additional authors for this research include S. Rajan and M. McKee.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckaa035. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.