Jonty Roland Adrita Bhattacharya-Craven Chris Hardesty Edward Fitzgerald Nilaya Varma Lisa Aufegger Martina Orlović David Nicholson
This report is targeted towards the private and public sectors and how they should align their individual goals with the greater vision of UHC.
Sustainable Development Goal 3.8: Achieve universal health coverage, including financial risk protection, access to quality essential healthcare services, and access to safe, effective, quality and affordable essential medicines and vaccines for all.
Private healthcare providers are an essential component in the delivery of free or low-cost health services for almost all countries working toward universal health coverage (UHC). The UN’s Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 3.82 of “healthy lives for all” by 2030 is too ambitious to be achieved without leveraging existing private capacity, investment and innovation. After all, private providers frequently represent half or more of the provider capacity in health systems that aspire to UHC. They are also leading many promising efforts to develop future care models that can expand access through technology, standardization, skills mix and economies of scale.
As a result, this report argues that the inability of private providers and public payers to work effectively together at significant scale in many countries is a major barrier to achieving UHC by 2030 (SDG 3.8).