Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation: G20 Leaders: Achieving Universal Health Coverage Should Top Your Agenda
“G20 leaders meeting in Japan this week should focus on fulfilling their obligations to improve and expand their nations’ health care systems. In a commentary published [Thursday by The Lancet], 20 health data, financing, and policy experts contend that funding for low- and middle-income nations must be increased to address the growing impacts of climate change, wars and conflicts, and a global political trend toward nationalism. They also argue that increased domestic funding is needed to achieve the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), including universal health coverage…” (6/27).