Universal health care in Bangladesh—promises and perils

Valid and reliable indicators against which progress towards global targets of 80% coverage of health services and 100% financial protection from catastrophic and impoverishing health-care costs can be assessed are crucial to achievement of universal health coverage (UHC). An even more ambitious project is to predict whether UHC targets will be met by 2030, and equitable gains achieved. In The Lancet Global Health, Md Shafiur Rahman and colleagues used Bayesian regression modelling techniques to take on this challenge for Bangladesh.1Rahman MS Rahman MM Gilmour S Swe KT Krull Abe S Shibuya K Trends in, and projections of, indicators of universal health coverage in Bangladesh, 1995–2030: a Bayesian analysis of population-based household data.Lancet Glob Health. 2018; 6: e84-e94Summary Full Text Full…