
Spotlight on Universal Health Coverage: Financing UHC
04/06/23 • 44 min
How can health systems make progress towards financing UHC? What are the different approaches? And why don't voluntary contribution and out-of-pocket systems perform as well? Editor-in-chief of The Lancet Global Health, Zoe Mullan, is joined by Irene Agyepong and Joseph Kutzin to discuss how funding affects UHC, in the first of a series of podcasts spotlighting UHC's importance to health.
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How can health systems make progress towards financing UHC? What are the different approaches? And why don't voluntary contribution and out-of-pocket systems perform as well? Editor-in-chief of The Lancet Global Health, Zoe Mullan, is joined by Irene Agyepong and Joseph Kutzin to discuss how funding affects UHC, in the first of a series of podcasts spotlighting UHC's importance to health.
Find out more about how The Lancet is marking its 200th anniversary with a series of important spotlights here:
https://www.thelancet.com/lancet-200?dgcid=buzzsprout_tlv_podcast_lancet200_uhc
You can see all of our Spotlight content relating to Universal Health Coverage here:
https://www.thelancet.com/lancet-200/universal-health-coverage?dgcid=buzzsprout_tlv_podcast_lancet200_uhc
Read all of our content at https://www.thelancet.com/?dgcid=buzzsprout_tlv_podcast_generic_lancet
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The Lancet Voice - Spotlight on Universal Health Coverage: Financing UHC
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Hello and welcome to the first in a series of podcasts on universal health coverage. I'm Zoe Mullen and I'm the editor in chief of the Lahtsit Global Health. This series is itself part of a wider initiative to shine a
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