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Health coverage more strongly associated with income than world region

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…

Health coverage more strongly associated with income than world region

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