State led innovations for achieving universal health coverage in a low resource setting Odisha, India: opportunities and challenges

Globally, the health systems are facing several constraints for achieving Universal Health Coverage (UHC). One of the major barriers in achieving UHC has been low financial protection to people and the proportion of population with out-of-pocket expenditure exceeding 10% of household budget. Further, percentage of population impoverished due to OOP increased from 1.8 to 2.5% in 2015. This suggests financial protection is deteriorating across the globe. The progress towards UHC differs across countries with different service coverage and financial protection measures. Since there is no standard approach towards achieving UHC, countries have adopted different ABSTRACT