Universal Health Coverage (UHC) service coverage index (0 - 100)

The Universal Health Coverage (UHC) service coverage index measures the extent to which essential health services are available to all individuals, including those who are most disadvantaged. It is recognized as the Sustainable Development Goal indicator 3.8.1 and serves as a Corporate Scorecard proxy measure for the percentage of people receiving essential health services. The measure is based on the coverage of tracer interventions in four key areas: reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health; infectious diseases; noncommunicable diseases; and service capacity and access.[1] The tracer indicators used to measure these areas are:

I. Reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health
- Family planning: Percentage of women of reproductive age (15−49 years) who are married or in union, who have their need for family planning satisfied with modern methods.
- Pregnancy care: Percentage of women aged 15-49 years with a live birth in a given time period who received antenatal care four or more times.
- Child immunization: Percentage of infants receiving three doses of diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis containing vaccine.
- Child treatment: Percentage of children younger than 5 years with symptoms of acute respiratory infection (cough and fast or difficult breathing due to a problem in the chest and not due to a blocked nose only) in the 2 weeks preceding the survey for whom advice or treatment was sought from a health facility or provider.

II. Infectious diseases
- Tuberculosis: Percentage of incident TB cases that are detected and treated.
- HIV/AIDS: Percentage of adults and children living with HIV currently receiving antiretroviral therapy.
- Malaria: Percentage of population in malaria-endemic areas who slept under an insecticide-treated net the previous night (only for countries with a high malaria burden).
- Water, sanitation, and hygiene: Percentage of population using at least basic sanitation services (Corporate Scorecard Vision and Global Context indicator).

III. Noncommunicable diseases
- Hypertension: Prevalence of treatment (taking medicine) for hypertension among adults aged 30-79 years with hypertension (age-standardized estimate) (%).
- Diabetes: Age-standardized mean fasting plasma glucose (mmol/L) for adults aged 18 years and older.
- Tobacco use: Age-standardized prevalence of adults >=15 years currently using any tobacco product (smoked and/or smokeless tobacco) on a daily or non-daily basis (SDG 3.a.1).

IV. Service capacity and access
- Hospital access: Hospital beds density, relative to a maximum threshold of 18 per 10,000 population.
- Health workforce: Health professionals (physicians, psychiatrists, and surgeons) per capita, relative to maximum thresholds for each cadre (partial overlap with SDG 3.c.1).
- Health security: International Health Regulations (IHR) core capacity index, which is the average percentage of attributes of 13 core capacities that have been attained (SDG 3.d.1).
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[1] Source: SDG 3.8.1 metadata at https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/metadata/files/Metadata-03-08-01.pdf. For more details, please visit the Tracking Universal Health Coverage: 2023 Global Monitoring Report at https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/entities/publication/1ced1b12-896e-49f1-ab6f-f1a95325f39b.