Dubai: The UAE is on track towards achieving universal health coverage to all, as per the first National Health Account report of 2017.
The NHA report presents the UAE’s road map for health expenditure. It was conducted as per the global Statement of Health Account (SHA) standards is recognised by the World Health Organisation (WHO) and was released by the Ministry of Health and Prevention on Sunday.
The health ministry based the health expenditure in households to the National Health Survey, which covered 10,000 households, while the expenditure for all other related sources came from the sources themselves. A team of experts gathered data and compiled it in a period of 10 months.