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Ref.: C.L.48.2022
The World Health Organization (WHO) presents its compliments to Member States and
Associate Members and has the honour to inform that WHO is consulting with its Member States
to review country estimates for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) indicators on
Universal Health Coverage (UHC).
Achieving UHC means all individuals and communities receive the effective health
services they need without risk of suffering financial hardship. Making progress towards UHC is
a policy priority for all countries, partners and the WHO to reach the 2030 Agenda and WHO's
Thirteenth General Programme of Work (GPW13).
In collaboration with the World Bank, WHO produces the UHC global monitoring report
every two years to monitor progress, the latest of which was published in 2021. 1 For the next
global report in 2023, we are once again initiating country consultation to review the new
timeseries estimates. These estimates will cover SDG indicators for two main areas: (1) a health
service coverage index (SDG indicator 3.8.1), which combines 14 health service coverage
indicators for reproductive, maternal and child health, infectious diseases, noncommunicable
diseases, and service capacity and access into a single summary metric, and (2) indicators of lack
of financial protection coverage against the cost of health services (SDG 3.8.2 and related
indicators) produced in collaboration with the World Bank Group. These indicators focus on
how much people spend on health relative to total household consumption and how that
spending may push households below or further below the poverty line. Data requirements can
be accessed here for SDG 3.8.1 and here for SDG 3.8.2 and related indicators.
Following the country consultation, WHO and the World Bank will release global, regional
and country level estimates of these indicators on their website as well as on the UNSD’s SDG
global data portal, anticipated for July 2023. This information will be used to inform the
UN High-level meeting on Universal Health Coverage planned on 20–21 September 2023.
The consultation will be conducted via email with persons designated as focal points.
WHO will recontact those nominated in 2021. They will be asked to confirm their nominations
or share the contact details of any new focal point(s) (official title, affiliation, email address and
telephone). If new nominations are necessary, WHO suggests that Member States designate
1 to 2 focal points covering the following two areas:
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1. For the health service coverage indicator (SDG 3.8.1), it is recommended that the focal
point has a broad view of population-based health surveys, routine health information
systems and administrative data sources that provide information on the coverage of
health services.
2. For the financial protection indicators (SDG 3.8.2 and related indicators), it is
recommended that the focal point be involved with monitoring and evaluation of
health financing policy in the country, including experience with data from household
expenditure surveys or has collaborated closely with the national statistical agency.
Confirmation or new nominations should be sent as soon as possible and no later than 5
5 December 2022 to the WHO’s Department of Data and Analytics and the Department of
Health Systems Governance and Financing via email:
[email protected].
Documentation of methods, data sources, and preliminary estimates will then be emailed to
the focal point(s) around mid-January 2023. The focal points will be asked to either review these
documents or to provide the data needed to produce the UHC SDG indicators for all years for
which relevant data is available. The country consultation process will be closed on
1 March 2023. Any submissions received after this date may not be considered in the final
publication of country estimates. In case of question about the process, an e-mail can be sent to
[email protected].
The World Health Organization takes this opportunity to renew to Member States and
Associate Members the assurance of its highest consideration.
GENEVA, 8 November 2022
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Teema: WHO: C.L.48.2022 (Country consultation on UHC)
Dear Member States of the World Health Organization,Please find attached,
in the six official languages, C.L.48.2022 regarding the country
consultation to review estimates for the Sustainable Development Goals
indicators on Universal Health Coverage.Should you have questions
regarding C.L.48.2022 please send an email to
[email protected]
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