The Frontdoor of Heatlhcare
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Providing Universal Health Coverage
This is perhaps the most basic requirement of all for healthcare providers, and especially for Primary Care. As defined by the World Health Organization, UHC means ensuring that citizens can access good quality care in a timely fashion, and without suffering financial strain as a result.
In some developed countries, but definitely not all of them, this kind of service has been taken more or less for granted, but easily accessible healthcare provision is now severely under pressure. The pandemic has added to waiting lists, increased levels of debt in systems, added to taxation and direct costs to citizens and insurers, and it is not clear when all of these negative impacts will finally play out and something approaching normality returns.
