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Foreword

Authors: Fahdi Dkhimi, Werner Soors, Bart Criel

Published in: BMC Health Services Research | Special Issue 3/2015

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Universal Health Coverage (UHC) is increasingly gaining centre stage in the post 2015 international development agenda [1]. After years of debate [2‐4], a consensus has gradually emerged that UHC is "an affordable dream" [5] that can have a significant impact on people's individual and collective wellbeing. Comprehensive monitoring frameworks to measure progress towards UHC are being developed [6]. Eventually, UHC is seen as a vehicle to bring about health equity [7]. …

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Title: Foreword
Authors: Fahdi Dkhimi
Werner Soors
Bart Criel
Publication date: 01-12-2015
Publisher: BioMed Central
Published in: BMC Health Services Research / Issue Special Issue 3/2015
Electronic ISSN: 1472-6963
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/1472-6963-15-S3-I1

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