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Endnotes i UN General Assembly, 2012. Adopting consensus text, the General Assembly encourages member states to plan and pursue the transition of national health care systems towards universal coverage. See www.un.org/News/Press/docs//2012/ ga11326.doc.htm. 1 See Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation annual letter 2013: www.gatesfoundation.org/Who-We-Are/Resources-and- Media/Annual-Letters-List/Annual-Letter-2013. 2 See www.un.org/ga/aids/pdf/abuja_declaration.pdf. 3 See http://unsdsn.org/resources/publications/health-in-theframework of-sustainable-development/. References Attaran, A. et al., 2012. ‘Healthy by law: The missed opportunity to use laws for public health’. The Lancet, 379, pp. 283–285. Chopra, M., Campbell, H. and Rudan, I., 2012. ‘Understanding the determinants of the complex interplay between cost-effectiveness and equitable impact in maternal and child mortality reduction’. Journal of Global Health, 2 (1). Draper, A. K., Hewitt, G. and Rifkin, S., 2010. ‘Chasing the dragon: Developing indicators for the assessment of community participation in health programmes’. Social Science and Medicine, 71, pp. 1102–1109. Go4Health, 2013. Realizing the right to health for everyone: The health goal for humanity pdf Go4Health. Available at: www.go4health.eu/wp-content/uploads/Go4Health-interimreport T h e r i g h t t o h e a l t h September-2013.pdf Accessed 1 April 2014. Gostin, L. O. and Sridhar, D., 2014. ‘Global health and the law’. New England Journal of Medicine, 370, pp. 1732–1740. Gostin, L. O., 2014. Global Health Law. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. O’Connell, T., Rasanathan, K. and Chopra, M., 2013. ‘What does universal health coverage mean?’. The Lancet, 383, pp. 277–279. O’Neill, K. et al., 2013. ‘Monitoring service delivery for universal health coverage: The Service Availability and Readiness Assessment’. Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 91, pp. 923–931. Stuckler, D. et al., 2010. ‘The political economy of universal health coverage’. Background paper for the global symposium on health systems research. Geneva: World Health Organization. UN CESCR (Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights), 2000. ‘General Comment No. 14: The Right to the Highest Attainable Standard of Health’. pp. 7–17. WHO (World Health Organization), 2005. ‘Sustainable health financing, universal coverage and social health insurance’. World Health Assembly 2005. Available at: http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/20302/1/A58_20- en.pdf?ua=1 Accessed 1 April 2014. WHO (World Health Organization), 2010. Health Systems Financing: The path to universal coverage. Geneva: WHO. WHO/WB (World Health Organization/World Bank), 2014. Monitoring Progress Towards Universal Health Coverage at Country and Global Levels. Geneva: WHO. Commonwealth Health Partnerships 2015 25 DEVI SRIDHAR (corresponding author; devi.sridhar@ed.ac.uk) is a senior lecturer in global public health in the Centre for Population Health Sciences at the University of Edinburgh, and a senior research fellow at the Blavatnik School of Government at the University of Oxford. She was previously a university lecturer in global health politics in the Department of Public Health, Oxford (2011–12); postdoctoral research fellow, All Souls College, Oxford (2007–11); and postdoctoral researcher at the Global Economic Governance Programme, Oxford (2006–07). MARTIN MCKEE is a professor of European public health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (with which he has worked since 1990) and research director of the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies. He is also the president-elect of the European Public Health Association. GORIK OOMS is a human rights lawyer. He joined the Department of Public Health at the Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium, in 2008. Since 2010 he has been the adjunct professor of law at Georgetown University in Washington, DC, USA. He has previously served as the director of the Global AIDS Alliance (2008); head of mission for Médecins Sans Frontières Belgium in Burundi and Mozambique; and executive director of Médecins Sans Frontières Belgium (2004). CLAUDIA BEIERSMANN is a scientist at the Institute of Public Health, Heidelberg University, and is a member of the EUfunded Go4Health project, which deals with the post-2015 agenda. She holds a master’s in anthropology (2005) and a PhD in public health (2012). She has worked on malaria and malnutrition in children in Africa, and with Médecins Sans Frontières in Africa. ERIC A. FRIEDMAN is an institute associate and the project leader for the Joint Action and Learning Initiative on National and Global Responsibilities for Health (JALI) at the O’Neill Institute, Georgetown University. He was previously senior global health policy advisor at Physicians for Human Rights, a board member of the Global Health Workforce Alliance and chair of the Health Workforce Advocacy Initiative. HEBE NAOMI GOUDA is a postdoctoral research fellow at the School of Population Health, University of Queensland. She completed her master’s (2006) and PhD (2011) at the University of Cambridge in the field of epidemiology and public health. She has considerable experience in developing and managing field research projects in Papua New Guinea. PETER HILL is a public health physician and policy analyst at the School of Population Health, University of Queensland. He has extensive international experience in health systems in developing countries, having worked in Nigeria, Cambodia, Lao PDR, Thailand, Mongolia, Papua New Guinea and Fiji. He has consulted for the World Health Organization, Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, the German Agency for International Cooperation, the Australian Red Cross and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. ALBRECHT JAHN is a senior professor and researcher at the Institute of Public Health, University of Heidelberg. He is a consultant to the German government on global health issues, and is also a member of World Health Organization’s Consultative Expert Working Group on Research and Development: Financing and Coordination. He has previously worked with the European Union’s directorate general for research and was involved in clinical work in Germany, Kenya and Tanzania from 1980 to 1991.


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