Universal health coverage: A re-emerging paradigm?

Abstract

A number of articles in this issue (1-4) highlight the importance of providing essential basic health services for achieving and maintaining optimal health status within a given population. The Ethiopian health system is also striving to address the need for providing essential health services within the perspective of universal health coverage (UHC) through its health care financing strategy (5) which is a basis for different reforms that include community based health insurance (CBHI) and social health insurance (SHI) schemes for people in the informal and formal sectors respectively as its health insurance strategy (6).