Universal Health Coverage: Foundations and Horizons

Tuba I. Agartan

doi:10.46692/9781447371861

Universal Health Coverage

Foundations and Horizons

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Tuba I. Agartan, Providence College, Rhode Island

Publisher:: Bristol University Press
Online publication date:: September 2025
Print publication year:: 2025
Online ISBN:: 9781447371861
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.46692/9781447371861

Subjects:: Law, Human Rights

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

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Dedication
pp v-vi

Contents
pp vii-vii

Series editors’ preface
pp viii-ix

List of figures and tables
pp x-x

List of abbreviations
pp xi-xii

Acknowledgements
pp xiii-xiv

Introduction: Foundations and horizons of universal health coverage
pp 1-8

1 - Studying health, health systems, and universalism
pp 9-29

2 - Tracing conceptions of health and universalism amid world transformations (1920–60)
pp 30-50

3 - The period of alternatives: the NIEO and the basic needs approach (1960–79)
pp 51-72

4 - Clues for convergence: neoliberal adjustment (1979–98)
pp 73-98

5 - New goals, dynamic agendas, and the conjoining of movements in universal health coverage
pp 99-137

6 - From cube to umbrella: UHC’s path to the SDGs
pp 138-167

7 - UHC and universalism in health: horizons
pp 168-197

Conclusion: Foundations and horizons
pp 198-206

References
pp 207-251

Index
pp 252-260

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