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“Sehat Sahulat Program”: A Leap into the Universal Health Coverage in Pakistan
Universal Health Coverage (UHC), initiative from the World Health Organization (WHO), is a means to provide the human right to health by providing essential health services to everyone, enabling disease prevention, treatment, rehabilitation, and palliative care. In line with the WHO recommendations,...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9223125/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35742247 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19126998 |
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author | Hasan, Syed Shahzad Mustafa, Zia Ul Kow, Chia Siang Merchant, Hamid A. |
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description | Universal Health Coverage (UHC), initiative from the World Health Organization (WHO), is a means to provide the human right to health by providing essential health services to everyone, enabling disease prevention, treatment, rehabilitation, and palliative care. In line with the WHO recommendations, the UHC was first introduced in Pakistan in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province under the name ‘Sehat Sahulat Programme’ (SSP), literally ‘Health Facility Program’ in 2015. The provincial Government in Punjab approved a similar initiative in Punjab, the largest province (by population) of the country, and the program was later rolled out in Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT), Azad and Jammu Kashmir (AJK), Gilgit Baltistan (GB), Sindh, and Baluchistan provinces leaping into the nation-wide coverage. This article provides a current overview of the UHC initiative in Pakistan, analyses its progress in appraising key milestones, and makes recommendations to achieve a robust universal health coverage across Pakistan. |
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spelling | pubmed-92231252022-06-24 “Sehat Sahulat Program”: A Leap into the Universal Health Coverage in Pakistan Hasan, Syed Shahzad Mustafa, Zia Ul Kow, Chia Siang Merchant, Hamid A. Int J Environ Res Public Health Commentary Universal Health Coverage (UHC), initiative from the World Health Organization (WHO), is a means to provide the human right to health by providing essential health services to everyone, enabling disease prevention, treatment, rehabilitation, and palliative care. In line with the WHO recommendations, the UHC was first introduced in Pakistan in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province under the name ‘Sehat Sahulat Programme’ (SSP), literally ‘Health Facility Program’ in 2015. The provincial Government in Punjab approved a similar initiative in Punjab, the largest province (by population) of the country, and the program was later rolled out in Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT), Azad and Jammu Kashmir (AJK), Gilgit Baltistan (GB), Sindh, and Baluchistan provinces leaping into the nation-wide coverage. This article provides a current overview of the UHC initiative in Pakistan, analyses its progress in appraising key milestones, and makes recommendations to achieve a robust universal health coverage across Pakistan. MDPI 2022-06-07 /pmc/articles/PMC9223125/ /pubmed/35742247 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19126998 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Commentary Hasan, Syed Shahzad Mustafa, Zia Ul Kow, Chia Siang Merchant, Hamid A. “Sehat Sahulat Program”: A Leap into the Universal Health Coverage in Pakistan |
title | “Sehat Sahulat Program”: A Leap into the Universal Health Coverage in Pakistan |
title_full | “Sehat Sahulat Program”: A Leap into the Universal Health Coverage in Pakistan |
title_fullStr | “Sehat Sahulat Program”: A Leap into the Universal Health Coverage in Pakistan |
title_full_unstemmed | “Sehat Sahulat Program”: A Leap into the Universal Health Coverage in Pakistan |
title_short | “Sehat Sahulat Program”: A Leap into the Universal Health Coverage in Pakistan |
title_sort | “sehat sahulat program”: a leap into the universal health coverage in pakistan |
topic | Commentary |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9223125/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35742247 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19126998 |
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