United Arab Emirates - Access to affordable health care

Proportion of population spending more than 10% of household consumption or income on out-of-pocket health care expenditure (%)

Definition: Proportion of population spending more than 10% of household consumption or income on out-of-pocket health care expenditure.

Source: World Health Organization and World Bank. 2019. Global Monitoring Report on Financial Protection in Health 2019.

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Year Value
2019 0.440

UHC service coverage index

The latest value for UHC service coverage index in United Arab Emirates was 78.00 as of 2019. Over the past 19 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 79.00 in 2015 and 51.00 in 2000.

Definition: Coverage index for essential health services (based on tracer interventions that include reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health, infectious diseases, noncommunicable diseases and service capacity and access). It is presented on a scale of 0 to 100.

Source: World Health Organization, Global Health Observatory Data Repository (https://www.who.int/data/gho).

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Year Value
2000 51.00
2005 76.00
2010 74.00
2015 79.00
2017 77.00
2019 78.00

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Universal Health Coverage