National Health Act, 2003 (Act No. 61 of 2003)

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National Health Insurance Policy towards Universal Health Coverage

Chapter 5 : National Health Insurance Coverage

5.1 The Three Dimensions of Universal Health Coverage (UHC)
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95. The World Health Organisation (WHO)58 provides guidance to countries on moving towards universal health coverage (UHC) and has identified three dimensions for progressing towards universal coverage as shown in Figure 1 in section 1.3 namely:
(a) Population coverage
(b) Service coverage
(c) Cost coverage

 

96. This section aims to outline how South Africa, through the implementation of NHI, using the three dimensions, will move towards UHC.