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Accelerating Global Improvements in Health Care Quality
This article describes how universal health coverage, a key Sustainable Development Goal, is meaningful only if the access it ensures is to effective and safe health services.
Leatherman S, Berwick DM. Accelerating global improvements in health care quality. JAMA. 2020 Dec 22;324(24):2479-2480.
Many lower-resourced countries, historically focused on expanding access to essential health services, now place a similar priority on higher quality. In this Viewpoint, the authors describe how universal health coverage, a key Sustainable Development Goal, is meaningful only if the access it ensures is to effective and safe health services.