Achieving global mortality reduction targets and universal health coverage: The impact of COVID-19

PLoS Med. 2021 Jun 24;18(6):e1003675. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1003675. eCollection 2021 Jun.

¹ Center for Policy Impact in Global Health, Duke Global Health Institute, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America.
² Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America.
³ National Health Insurance Authority, Accra, Ghana.
⁴ Department of Health Policy, Planning and Management, School of Public Health, University of Ghana, Legon, Accra, Ghana.
⁵ Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, College of Health Sciences, University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana.
⁶ Institute for Global Health Sciences, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America.
⁷ Public Health Foundation of India, New Delhi, India.
⁸ Health Strategy and Delivery Foundation, Abuja, Nigeria.
⁹ Center for Hearing Research, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America.

Abstract

Wenhui Mao and coauthors discuss possible implications of the COVID-19 pandemic for health aspirations in low- and middle-income countries.

The authors received no specific funding for this work.