title: Great expectations for the World Health Organization: a Framework Convention on Global Health to achieve universal health coverage.
abstract: Establishing a reform agenda for the World Health Organization (WHO) requires understanding its role within the wider global health system and the purposes of that wider global health system. In this paper, the focus is on one particular purpose: achieving universal health coverage (UHC). The intention is to describe why achieving UHC requires something like a Framework Convention on Global Health (FCGH) that have been proposed elsewhere,(1) why WHO is in a unique position to usher in an FCGH, and what specific reforms would help enable WHO to assume this role.
authors.affiliation: Department of Public Health, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium. Electronic address: gooms@itg.be.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Ooms
authors.affiliation: Rockefeller Foundation, New York, USA.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Marten
authors.affiliation: Law School, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Waris
authors.affiliation: Department of Public Health, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Hammonds
authors.affiliation: Center for Health Human Rights & Development, Kampala, Uganda.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Mulumba
authors.affiliation: O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, Georgetown University, Washington D.C., USA.
authors.forename: E A
authors.initials: EA
authors.lastname: Friedman
mesh_terms: D014943:Global Health; D006801:Humans; D019472:Universal Health Insurance / Q000458:organization & administration*; D014944:World Health Organization / Q000458:organization & administration*
keywords: Convention; Human rights; Right to health; Universal health coverage