WHO Department of Health Financing and Economics

The unit within the World Health Organization responsible for the technical framework of Universal Health Coverage (UHC), for country-level health accounts, and for the analysis of health financing arrangements that translate the right to health into concrete resource allocations.

Why it matters here

Universal Health Coverage is the practical form in which the WHO expresses the right to health today. Its unit of analysis is the essential service package and the financial protection of the household. A physiological rights argument that names specific biological parameters as objects of the right sits below the level at which UHC operates. Whether the two levels can be reconnected is one of the strategic questions this resource has to answer.