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Call for papers: Leaving no one behind: Interdisciplinary workshop on Universal Health Coverage (UHC)
Call for papers: Leaving no one behind: Interdisciplinary workshop on Universal Health Coverage (UHC)
Location: Warwick University April 19, 2017
Universal Health Coverage (UHC) is defined by the WHO to mean that all people receive the health services they need without suffering financial hardship when paying for them. The current Global discussions on UHC seem to mirror earlier discussion on Primary Health Care (PHC)) as elaborated in the Alta Ata Declaration that defined PHC as essential health care based on practical, scientifically sound and socially acceptable methods and technology made universally accessible to individuals and families in the community through their full participation and at a cost that the community and country can afford to maintain at every stage of their development in the spirit of self-reliance and self-determination.
UHC just like PHC could be essential to ensure that African countries achieve their targets of reducing poverty and improving health under Sustainable Development Goal 1 and 3. It is therefore important to interrogate The workshop will focus on the legal, ethical, economic and epistemic, limits of universal health programmes which have currently been fronted at the global level.
We are particularly interested in
- Inter disciplinary methodologies in developing the literature on universal health coverage.
- The intersections between the current UHC call and the past aspirations of Primary Health Care.
- The role of performance based financing in ensuring community health financing?
- How we can ensure greater participation in community health mechanisms?
- How should we approach the question of hard to reach communities in order to ensure community health funding as part of UHC?
- Whether a human rights discourse has any value in achieving UHC
- Whether there are economic arguments for putting community health at the heart of UHC initiatives?
- Is there any value in thinking about an intersectional approach for HHC?
We are hoping to welcome early career scholars and practitioners who are interested in these issues and hope to publish some of their work in a special edition on UHC for Law Justice and Development. The special issue will be entitled, ‘Leaving no one behind, Practical Considerations for Universal Health Coverage Aspirations’
If you are interested please submit a short abstract of at least 200 words by the 1st of April 2017 to Sharifah.Sekalala@warwick.ac.uk . We will pay reasonable expenses for speakers who are invited to give papers.