Universal Health Coverage as defined by the World Health Organization encompasses equal access for all to good quality health services and with no financial risk for those in need of them. As such it is a modern term formulated on western ideas of health, however the philosophy it conveys has existed for many centuries across different regions and cultures of the world.

Health For All is based on series of seminars which formed part of the World Health Organization's Global Health Histories project. It explores the development of universal health coverage in diverse contexts, the political and economic trends that effected the running of these schemes, and, not least, critical perspectives into the variety of links between structures of national universal healthcare systems.

Contents

• Foreword
• Introduction: The Journey
  Margaret Jones, Monica Saavedra, Hooman Momen, Sanjoy Bhattacharya, and Alex Medcalf.
  • Note on the translations
• 1. On the Origin of Primary Health Care
  Dr Socrates Litsios.
  • Interconnections and personalities
  • A revolution in organizing and delivering care
• 2. The WHO and Primary Health Care during the 1980s
  Professor Marcos Cueto.
  • The emergence of Selective Primary Health Care (SPHC)
  • GOBI—The SPHC mantra
  • Expanded Program on Immunization (EPI)
  • Concluding Remarks
• 3. The Sri Lankan Path to Health for All from the Colonial Period to Alma-Ata
  Dr Margaret Jones.
• 4. Mexico’s Historical Models for Providing Rural Healthcare
  Dr Gabriela Soto Laveaga.
  • Rural Healthcare Delivery—The Social Service Year
  • Conclusion
• 5. Nepal: Primary Health Care, Universal Health Coverage and Foreign Aid
  Dr Susan Heydon.
  • Khunde Hospital
• 6. From Pioneer to Pariah to a Post-Aparthied Phoenix? Primary Health Care in South Africa
  Dr Vanessa Noble.
• 7. The NHS in Britain: Any Lesson from History for Universal Health Coverage?
  Dr Martin Gorsky.
• 8. Reinterpreting the Role of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Public Health in Rural China in 1970s
  Professor Xiaoping Fang.
• Images
• 9. Missionary Medicine and Primary Health Care in Uganda: Implications for Universal Health Care in Africa
  Dr Shane Doyle.
• 10. Primary Health Care Reforms in Sri Lanka: Aiming at Preserving Universal Access to Health
  Dr Susie Perera.
• 11. Politics of Primary Health Care in Nepal
  Priyankar Bahadur Chand and Dr Ramesh Kharel.
• 12. Traditional and Complementary Medicine in Primary Health Care
  Dr Qi Zhang.
• 13. Brazil: The Family Health Strategy
  Dr João Nunes.
• 14. Brazil: The Challenge of Universal Health Coverage
  Dr Hooman Momen and Dr Maria Goreti Rosa-Freitas.
• 15. Registration as the Anchor for Universal Health Coverage? The English Early Modern Historical Example
  Professor Simon Szreter.
  • Further Reading
• 16. Universal Health Coverage and Missionary Medicine
  Dr Ian Smith and Sally Smith.