Health coverage more strongly associated with income than world region

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A global study finds that universal health coverage is more closely associated with human development and income than with world region. Coverage disparities between income groups generally exceed disparities between regions.

Higher levels of human development are associated with better universal health coverage worldwide, and disparities in coverage between income groups are generally larger than disparities between world regions. Those are two of the conclusions of a new study published this week in the journal PLOS Global Public Health by Akira Hayasaka of Yokohama City University, Japan, Yasuhiro Nakanishi of the National Institute of Public Health, Japan, and colleagues.