In 1977, the World Health Assembly proposed, as a goal for the following decades, to ensure that by the year 2000 all citizens had a level of health that would allow them to have a socially and economically productive life. A goal that was established under the slogan "Health for all in the year 2000".
Forty-one years later, this 2018, WHO takes up that motto and establishes it for World Health Day, this time focused on universal coverage: "for everyone, anywhere".
According to WHO, universal coverage means that every person, in any community, can receive the health services that require, with the quality necessary to improve their health, without suffering economic difficulties.
In addition to medical care, it includes services related to public health, such as water sanitation or the control of disease vectors, such as mosquitoes. In sum, universal coverage covers all components of the health system.
However, this does not provide free coverage for all possible health interventions, since no nation could provide all services free of charge in a sustainable manner.
In Mexico, and in response to a fragmented health system, public policies have been developed to close the attention gap. Thus, in 2001 the first steps were taken to establish what some years later would be known as the National System of Social Protection in Health, established to provide health coverage and protect the population against catastrophic expenses derived from it, and thus promote the mandate constitutional right to health protection for all Mexicans.
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