The right to health as the basis for universal health coverage: A cross-national analysis of national medicines policies of 71 countries.

Persistent barriers to universal access to medicines are limited social protection in the event of illness, inadequate financing for essential medicines, frequent stock-outs in the public sector, and high prices in the private sector. We argue that greater coherence between human rights law, nationa...

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Main Authors: S Katrina Perehudoff, Nikita V Alexandrov, Hans V Hogerzeil
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2019-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0215577