The goal that all people have access to the full range of quality health services they need, when and where they need them, without financial hardship. The World Health Organization treats it as a central policy target, tracked through both service coverage and the share of household income health spending consumes.
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First Described YearSourced to the subject's own account First Described EraSourced to the subject's own account1883, Germany's Sickness Insurance Law under Chancellor Otto von Bismarck (the Bismarck Model), the first form of universal care in modern times 1 Concept ClassHealth systems and policy 2 Connections
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The 1978 Alma-Ata Declaration's Health for All primary health care goal is the standard historical and conceptual predecessor the modern Universal Health Coverage concept is traced to.
A widely cited real-world example of universal health coverage funded through general taxation and free at the point of delivery.
Source Wikipedia: National Health Service
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1. Wikipedia: Universal Health Coverage
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A universal health care or universal health coverage (UHC) system is a healthcare system in which all citizens of a country have some level of health coverage.
History section, first paragraph
This social health insurance model, named the Bismarck Model after Prussian Chancellor Otto von Bismarck, was the first form of universal care in modern times.
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All people have access to the full range of quality health services they need, when and where they need them, without financial hardship.
Wikipedia: National Health Service
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