Studies from Eastern Kentucky University Yield New Data on Sustainable Development (Universal health coverage evolution, ongoing trend, and future challenge: A conceptual and historical policy review): Sustainability Research – Sustainable Development

2023 FEB 16 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News -- Investigators discuss new findings in sustainable development. According to news reporting from Richmond, Kentucky, by NewsRx journalists, research stated, “The goal of universal health coverage (UHC) from the United Nations (UN) has metamorphized from its early phase of primary health care (PHC) to the recent sustainable development goal (SDG). In this context, we aimed to document theoretical and philosophical efforts, historical analysis, financial and political aspects in various eras, and an assessment of coverage during those eras in relation to UHC in a global scenario.”

Our news correspondents obtained a quote from the research from Eastern Kentucky University: “Searching with broad keywords circumadjacent to UHC with scope and inter-disciplinary linkages in conceptual analysis, we further narrated the review with the historical development of UHC in different time periods. We proposed, chronologically, these frames as eras of PHC, the millennium development goal (MDG), and the ongoing sustainable development goal (SDG). Literature showed that modern healthcare access and coverage were in extension stages during the PHC era flagshipped with ‘health for all (HFA)’, prolifically achieving vaccination, communicable disease control, and the use of modern contraceptive methods. Following the PHC era, the MDG era markedly reduced maternal, neonatal, and child mortalities mainly in developing countries. Importantly, UHC has shifted its philosophic stand of HFA to a strategic health insurance and its extension. After 2015, the concept of SDG has evolved. The strategy was further reframed as service and financial assurance.”

According to the news reporters, the research concluded: “Strategies for further resource allocation, integration of health service with social health protection, human resources for health, strategic community participation, and the challenges of financial securities in some global public health concerns like the public health emergency and travelers’ and migrants’ health are further discussed. Some policy departures such as global partnership, research collaboration, and experience sharing are broadly discussed for recommendation.”

For more information on this research see: Universal health coverage evolution, ongoing trend, and future challenge: A conceptual and historical policy review. Frontiers in Public Health, 2023,11. (Frontiers in Public Health - http://journal.frontiersin.org/journal/public-health). The publisher for Frontiers in Public Health is Frontiers Media S.A.

A free version of this journal article is available at https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2023.1041459.

Our news editors report that more information may be obtained by contacting Chhabi Lal Ranabhat, Department of Health Promotion and Administration, College of Health Science, Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, KY, United States. Additional authors for this research include Shambhu Prasad Acharya, Chiranjivi Adhikari, Chun-Bae Kim.

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