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. 2011 May;8(5):e1001031.
doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001031. Epub 2011 May 10.

The Joint Action and learning initiative: towards a global agreement on national and global responsibilities for health

Lawrence O Gostin  1 , Eric A Friedman, Gorik Ooms, Thomas Gebauer, Narendra Gupta, Devi Sridhar, Wang Chenguang, John-Arne Røttingen, David Sanders
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The Joint Action and learning initiative: towards a global agreement on national and global responsibilities for health

Lawrence O Gostin et al. PLoS Med. 2011 May.

Abstract

Lawrence Gostin and colleagues discuss their work on the Joint Action and Learning Initiative on National and Global Responsibilities for Health (JALI), which aims to secure a global health agreement (such as a Framework Convention on Global Health) that would inform post-Millennium Development Goal global health commitments.

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Conflict of interest statement

Thomas Gebauer works for Medico International, a Germany-based nongovernmental organization. No other author declares a competing interest.

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Figure 1. Universal health coverage and the right to health.
The pooled funds represent the total amount of funding that states have available to expand universal health coverage along three dimensions: 1) who is covered, and the proportion of population covered; 2) what services are covered; and 3) the extent to which the state covers the cost of these services. Under a right to health approach, this total level of funding will be derived from the maximum of available resources that states are required to dedicate to the right to health and other rights.
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