Regional Fact Sheets

Fact Sheet on Universal Access to Health
3 March 2010

Universal access to health care is the target The ultimate goal is universal coverage so that everyone can afford medical help and have access to appropriate promotive, preventive, curative and reh...
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Health, poverty and MDG
June 2005

About 1 billion people globally live in extreme poverty on an income of just $1 a day, of whom 700 million live in Asia and the Pacific. Many of the poor lack access to basic health services. The Mil...
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Global Fact Sheets

10 facts on patient safety

Health Policy and Equity (EURO)

Return to Alma-Ata (Lancet Article by Dr Margaret Chan on primary health care)

What is a health system (WHO Headquarters)